Three years into the implementation of the SALW Control Roadmap for the Western Balkans, the EU and the Western Balkans Ministers review progress achieved

On 7 September, the EU Commission in close cooperation with the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the European External Action Service, organized a 3rd High-level Meeting ...

UNDP and the German Government donated computer equipment to the Ministry of Interior of North Macedonia for enabling more effective SALW control

Skopje, August 26, 2021 – Today, the Minister of Interior Oliver Spasovski, the UNDP Resident Representative Narine Sahakyan and the Deputy Head of Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany Otto Graf ...

Progress made in South East and East Europe highlighted during the Seventh Biannual Meeting of States

From 26 to 30 July 2021, member states, international organizations, non-governmental organizations and experts around the globe gathered during the 7th Biannual Meeting of States to consider the ...

From the Western Balkans to the Caribbean – Regional Approaches to Arms Control

Published by UNLIREC here  On the margins of the seventh Biennial Meeting of States on the UN Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat, and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light ...

Join us for BMS7 side event “From the Western Balkans to the Caribbean – Regional Approaches to Arms Control”

UN Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC) and SEESAC will organize a virtual side event “From the Western Balkans to the Caribbean – ...

5th Regional Roadmap Coordination Meeting

Following Local Coordination Meetings that took place in Pristina, Skopje, Podgorica, Tirana, Belgrade, and Sarajevo, over 100 participants, representatives of SALW Commissions in the Western Balkans, ...

Progress in SALW control acknowledged at the Western Balkans Summit

Seven years after the first Berlin Western Balkans Summit in 2014, the Heads of Governments of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, as well as the Heads of ...

5th Round of the Roadmap Local Coordination Meetings held in the Western Balkans

Six Local Coordination Meetings in the framework of the implementation of the Regional Roadmap on a sustainable solution to arms control in the Western Balkans (Roadmap) were organized by the SALW ...

Results achieved and future plans presented at the Steering Committee meeting of the Western Balkans SALW Control Roadmap Trust Fund

The annual Steering Committee meeting of the Western Balkans Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) Control Roadmap Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF) took place on 28 January 2021, bringing together donors ...

2020 results of the Western Balkans SALW Control Roadmap Trust Fund

In 2020, UNDP Offices in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo*, and the UNODC Global Firearms Programme initiated the first four projects of the Western Balkans SALW Control Roadmap Trust Fund. These ...