The United Nations Office in Drugs and Crime (UNODC) hosted a Cross-Regional Meeting titled 'Sharing of Good Practices in Countering Illicit Manufacturing and Illicit trafficking in Firearms and its Link to transnational Organized Crime, Lessons Learned from the Global Firearms Programme- GLOX34'. The meeting was carried out in the framework of the Global Firearms Programme and brought together 32 firearms control authorities and criminal justice practitioners from 19 countries representing South America and the Sahel-Saharan region. The meeting facilitated the discussions on the similarities and differences of the firearms trafficking situation in the two regions.