{"id":231216,"date":"2025-02-12T08:44:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T12:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=231216"},"modified":"2025-02-12T09:39:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T13:39:38","slug":"initiative-against-illegal-arms-trafficking-for-central-america-and-dominican-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/02\/12\/initiative-against-illegal-arms-trafficking-for-central-america-and-dominican-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Initiative against illegal arms trafficking for Central America and Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/OAS-logo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-231188\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/OAS-logo.png 732w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/OAS-logo-300x84.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Security ministers and high-ranking officials from six Central American countries and the Dominican Republic will be meeting on Wednesday, 12 February 2025 at the Organization of American States (OAS) headquarters in Washington, DC, to sign a new joint initiative against illegal arms trafficking, ammunition, and explosives. This involves the formal adoption of the &#8220;Central American Roadmap to Prevent the Trafficking and Illicit Proliferation of Firearms and Munitions,&#8221; a regional instrument that will strengthen capabilities and coordination between states to counter one of the region&#8217;s most significant threats to security and development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initiative, promoted by the OAS together with the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNLIREC), and with financial support from the European Union, also seeks to promote violence prevention programs, improve control over the lifecycle of weapons, and develop better capabilities for investigation and criminal prosecution, including strengthening border controls, creating specialized units for arms trafficking, and implementing effective tracking systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event will include the participation of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 OAS Secretary General, Luis Almagro;<br>\u2022 UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu;<br>\u2022 Minister of Interior of Guatemala, Francisco Jim\u00e9nez;<br>\u2022 Minister of Public Security of Panama, Frank Alexis Abrego;<br>\u2022 Minister of Interior and Police of the Dominican Republic, Faride Raful;<br>\u2022 Vice-Minister for Prevention and Human Rights Affairs in the Ministry of Security of Honduras, Hugo Suazo;<br>\u2022 General Director of Armament of the Ministry of Public Security of Costa Rica, Mar\u00eda Eugenia Mata Chavarr\u00eda; and<br>\u2022 Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry of Home Affairs and New Growth Industries of Belize, Sharole Carr Saldivar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oas.org\/en\/media_center\/press_release.asp?sCodigo=AVI-024\/25\">OAS <\/a><br>\u2003<br>12 February 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security ministers and high-ranking officials from six Central American countries and the Dominican Republic will be meeting on Wednesday, 12 February 2025 at the Organization of American States (OAS) headquarters in Washington, DC, to sign a new joint initiative against illegal arms trafficking, ammunition, and explosives. This involves the formal adoption of the &#8220;Central American &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/02\/12\/initiative-against-illegal-arms-trafficking-for-central-america-and-dominican-republic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231290,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231216\/revisions\/231290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}