44th Ministerial Meeting of the UN Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa (UNSAC)
The 44th Ministerial Meeting of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa (UNSAC) took place from 29 May to 2 June 2017. The meeting, attended by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for UNOCA, reviewed the security and geopolitical situation in Central Africa and gave the participants the oppotunity to discuss issues such as armed violence and terrorism, transnational organized crime and proliferation of small arms and light weapons (SALW).
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.