The Organisation for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) has come to an agreement whereby surplus arms will be destroyed, instead of kept in storage. The idea is to prevent these lethal weapons from getting onto the illegal market and into the hands of criminals and terrorists.
This is welcomed news, since there has been an increase in deaths of young people by shooting with small & light weapons in British cities. By extrapolation, this pattern would be repeated in other European cities.
The OSCE produced a Code of Conduct in 1994, which can be referred to below:
The Forum for Security Co-operation, has acknowledged that small and light weapons (SALW) need to be controlled globally, as well as within the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) areas.
In areas of conflict, (whether obvious or not), these measures should be enhanced to prevent more deaths of non-combatants in fields of action. In both war zones, and increasingly within urban areas, SALW's are 'gateway' weapons used to 'introduce' and 'ease' inner city youth's into heavier weapons use.
With the increase in immigration and migration of people from these global trouble spots, we find an increased exchange of young semi-professional military personnel moving betwixt one theatre and another. It will make less and less difference if these 'trouble spots' are within urban centres of western cities or theatres of war in the middle east or Africa.
The drive will be the fundamental need for the young person to arrive at a 'psychological' and physical 'hit'. Religion, for example, will only be the vehicle for arrival at this climax. Vulnerable, 'urban' young, who may be unemployed, and who have decreasing amounts of 'respect' for older people, will, only be attracted to gangsters and what appears to be their traditional 'elders' to learn about 'war'. Because of clear defineable perceived and real discriminations, and 'slights' the public will become more vulnerable to this phenomenon.
Therefore the machinations of the interactions between the young and older 'groomers', that lead to the use of weapons in urban areas of western cities, can lead to a 'repatriation' of a new generation of new-born religious or freedom fighting soldiers for no more complicated reason than to express ideologies around cultural glamour (sex), bravado (machismo) and heavenly reward in the 'after life' (copious sex).
When the Forum for Security claimed to have adopted:
"...the first politically binding document imposing controls over the manufacturing, marking, record-keeping, export, import, brokering, management of stockpiles, reduction of surpluses and destruction of SALW.", in 2000, there were high expectations. These expectations were not reached and the growth of disaffected politically-ignored youth increased.
Thereafter, "The UN Programme of Action (UNPoA) to prevent, Combat and Eradicate the illicit Trade in SALW (UNPoA)" was enacted in 2001. And yet there is still easily accessible and enormous proliferation in the production of SALW's.
We hope that the OSCE's 'streamling' its work to:
"complement the global fight against the illicit proliferation of SALW's and contribute to the implementation of the UNPoA", is more than lip service this time. Or else, we will see an increase in young people not only attracted to the glamour of the gun and the copper-head, but ready and eager to 'travel n trade' in that evil business of terror and harm.
See article where children under 10-years-old are issued guns in Britain:
