43rd Ministerial Meeting of the UN Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa (UNSAC)
The 43rd Ministerial Meeting of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa (UNSAC) took place from 28 November to 2 December 2016. The meeting reviewed the security situation in Central Africa and represented an occasion to participants about the interconnections between terrorist and criminal groups and illicit arms flows in the region. This was considered one additional reason to strengthen regional commitments to ratify the Kinshasa Convention and the Arms Trade Treaty.
The Ministerial Meetings of UNSAC are bi-annual meetings that provide an analysis of the disarmament situation in Central Africa, with a specific focus on the advances in the implementation of international, regional and sub-regional instruments. The Committee is a sub-regional grouping of eleven Member States: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda, and São Tomé and Príncipe.