NOTING the importance to all States of the availability of suitable means of detection;
RECOGNIZING that the implementation of such means could give rise to difficulties for
some States;
CONSCIOUS of the desirability of further work in relation to the detection of explosives
other than plastic explosives which might be used for unlawful acts;
NOTING the continuing interest of the United Nations and in particular of the International Civil Aviation Organization and the International Maritime Organization;
THE CONFERENCE:
1. Urges States to become Party to the Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives
for the Purpose of Detection as soon as possible.
2. Calls upon States which manufacture plastic explosives to implement the marking of
such explosives as soon as possible.
3. Requests States to continue to encourage research and development into improved and economic means of detecting all the marking agents specified in the Convention.
4. Urges the international community to consider increasing technical, financial and material assistance to States in need of such assistance in order to be able to benefit from the achievement of the aims and objectives of the Convention, in particular through the technical assistance programmes of the International Civil Aviation Organization.
5. Invites the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization:
a) to assume the functions referred to in the Convention;
b) to maintain in existence its Ad Hoc Group of Specialists on the Detection of Explosives in order to enable it to continue studies to keep the Technical Annex to the Convention up to date, pending the entry into force of the Convention and the formation of the International Explosives Technical Commission;
c) to respect the principle of equitable geographical representation in the appointment of the members of the International Explosives Technical Commission.
6. Requests the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization to initiate, as a matter of high priority, studies into methods of detecting explosives or explosive materials, especially into the marking of those explosives of concern, other than plastic explosives, whose detection would be aided by the use of marking agents, with a view to the evolution, if needed, of an appropriate comprehensive legal regime.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF the Delegates of States duly authorized thereto have signed this Final Act.
DONE at Montreal on the first day of March of the year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety-one in five authentic texts in the English, French, Russian, Spanish and Arabic languages in a single copy which shall be deposited with the International Civil Aviation Organization and a certified copy of which shall be delivered by the said Organization to each of the Governments represented at the Conference.