47th Ministerial Meeting of the UN Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa (UNSAC)
The 47th Ministerial Meeting of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa (UNSAC) took place from 3 December 2018 to 7 December 2018. The meeting represented an opportunity to address issues on cross-border controls, maritime piracy, the activity of terrorist groups in the subregion, mercenarism and transnational organised crime and SALW controls. On the same occasion the General Secretariat of ECCAS presented a draft community regulation addressing security threats connected to pastoralism and transhumance. Moreover, in the margins of the meeting ECCAS, UNREC and UNOCA signed a memorandum of understanding to rationalise their interventions on SALW control activities.
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.