The signatories agreed to enhance the capacity of the OAU's member states to identify, seize and destroy illicit weapons and to put in place measures to control the circulation, possession, transfer and use of small arms and light weapons and the institutionalisation of training programmes to control and eradicate the circulation of illicit arms in Africa. The revised 1996 Kyoto Convention on Customs is an adequate basis for this improved procedure, but the Convention awaits ratification and implementation of UN member states. A single globally-adapted document accompanying military cargo would provide customs officers or exporting, transiting and importing authorities with much greater clarity on the precise nature of the cargo, and the parties involved in the handling, shipping, facilitating or buying and selling the weaponry. As a first step, urgent ratification of the Convention by all UN member states is necessary. D. Further Research 247.
Financial assets are at the heart of all criminal enterprise.
Lost workers and equipment can always be replaced if financial assets are not targeted. Because of time constraints, the Panel could not look into the assets of RUF leaders, their sponsors and the members of the organised crime groups that supply them. Further investigation is required to identify, trace, freeze and confiscate these assets. Another involves a Moldova-based company named Renan. The information was considered reliable, but in order to verify or disprove these allegations, further investigation will be required.