Arms Trade

About the Arms Trade In all parts of the world the ready availability of weapons and

ammunition has led to human suffering political repression crime and terror among civilian

populations Irresponsible transfers of conventional weapons can destabilize security in a region

enable the violation of Security Council arms embargoes and contribute to human rights abuses

Importantly investment is discouraged and development disrupted in countries experiencing

conflict and high levels of violence which also affect their ability to attain the Millennium

Development Goals

httpwwwunorgdisarmamentconvarmsArmsTrade

UN Conferences

United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty

18-28 March 2013 and 2 to 27 July 2012 New York

httpwwwunorgdisarmamentATT

UN Entities

United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)

o Arms Trade httpwwwunorgdisarmamentconvarmsArmsTrade

o Arms Trade Treaty httpwwwunorgdisarmamentconvarmsArmsTradeTreaty

The Global Reported Arms Trade ndash The UN Register of Conventional Arms

httpwwwunorgdisarmamentconvarmsRegister

httpwwwun-registerorg

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)

o Supporting the Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations through Regional Discussions and

Expertise Sharing (This research project was carried out July 2010 - August 2012)

httpwwwunidirorgbddfiche-activitephpref_activite=537

o Promoting Discussion on an Arms Trade Treaty (This research project was carried out

February 2009 - August 2010)

o httpwwwunidirorgbddfiche-activitephpref_activite=431

o Analysis of States Views on an Arms Trade Treaty (This research project was carried out

June 2007 - January 2008)

httpwwwunidirorgbddfiche-activitephpref_activite=349

Further Information

Global issues on the UN Agenda ndash Disarmament

httpwwwunorgenglobalissuesdisarmamentindexshtml

Fact Sheet on the Arms Trade Treaty

httpwwwunorgdisarmamentHomePagefactsheetcabATT_Fact_Sheetpdf

Selected Statements and Speeches by UN Officials

Secretary-General disappointed at inability of Conference on Arms Trade Treaty to agree

on text but says lsquoconsiderable common groundrsquo on which to build (SGSM14436-

DC3373 30 July 2012) httpwwwunorgNewsPressdocs2012sgsm14436dochtm

Secretary-General concerned by limited progress in Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations calls

on delegations to show flexibility work in good faith to bridge differences (SGSM14433-

DC3372 26 July 2012) httpwwwunorgNewsPressdocs2012sgsm14433dochtm

Secretary-General in remarks to Conference on Arms Trade Treaty calls absence of

global instrument dealing with conventional weapons lsquoa disgracersquo (SGSM14394-

DC3363 3 July 2012) httpwwwunorgNewsPressdocs2012sgsm14394dochtm

Selected UN documents and publications

ARES67234 (24 December 2012) The arms trade treaty httpundocsorgARES67234

A66166 (20 July 2011) The arms trade treaty report of the Secretary-General

httpundocsorgA66166 and

httpundocsorgA66166Add1 httpundocsorgA66166Add2

Further UN documents on ldquoArms Traderdquo ndash click here

Monitoring and verification of the arms trade and arms embargoes by Michael Brzoska

(In disarmament forum 2010 no 3) httpunidirorgpdfarticlespdf-art3000pdf

Research amp Documentation

United Nations Documentation - Research Guide on Disarmament

httpwwwunorgDeptsdhlresguidespecdahtml

UNOG Library Resource Guide - Disarmament

httpwwwnetvibescomunoglibrary-disarmament

Disarmament Yearbooks Online 2002 - 2011

httpwwwunorgdisarmamentHomePageODAPublicationsYearbook

UNRIC Library Backgrounder ndash Disarmament

httpwwwunricorghtmlenglishlibrarybackgroundersdisarmament_engpdf

March 2013 not an official document ndash for information only

httpwwwunricorghtmlenglishlibrarybackgroundersarmstrade_engpdf