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On 6 December 1991, the General Assembly adopted resolution 46/36 L entitled "Transparency in armaments" , which requested the Secretary-General to establish and maintain at United Nations Headquarters in New York a universal and non-discriminatory Register of Conventional Arms, to include data on international arms transfers as well as information provided by Member States on military holdings, procurement through national production and relevant policies.

The Register comprises seven categories of major conventional arms, namely, battle tanks, armored combat vehicles, large-calibre artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships (including submarines) as well as missiles and missile-launchers. It has been in operation with effect from calendar year 1992. Thus far, a total of 172 States have reported to the Register one or more times.  The Register captures the great bulk of the global arms trade in the categories of conventional weapons covered by it.

REGISTER DATABASE Data Submitted by States for Calendar Years 1992-2006 (click here)     Regional Workshop on Transparency in Conventional Arms The Department of Disarmament Affairs organized a regional workshop on "Transparency in Conventional Arms" at UN-ESCAP in Bangkok, Thailand, on 6-7 December 2006. The workshop was co-sponsored by the Governments of Sweden, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Governmental experts from the following countries participated in the workshop: Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.

                     ANNUAL CONSOLIDATED REPORTS OF

                                    THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

Latest Report A/63/120, 14 July 2008

• A/62/170, 27 July 2007
  

  • A/62/170/Add.1, 14 September 2007
    

  • A/62/170/Add.2, 15 October 2007
    

  • A/62/170/Add.3, 31 January 2008
    
    

     

• A/61/159, 24 July 2006
  

• A/61/159/Add.1, 20 September 2006
  
• A/61/159/Add.1/Corr.1, 6 October 2006
  
• A/61/159/Add.1/Corr.2, 5 January 2007
  
• A/61/159/Add.2, 4 January 2007
  
• A/61/159/Corr.1, 18 September 2006
  
• A/61/159/Corr.2, 16 October 2006
  
• A/60/160, 25 July 2005
  
  • A/60/160/Add.1, 22 September 2005
    
  • A/60/160/Add.2, 27 December 2005
    
  • A/60/160/Add.3, 12 July 2006
    
  • A/60/160/Corr.1, 22 September 2005
    
  • A/60/160/Corr.2, 1 June 2006
    
• A/59/193, 30 July 2004
  
  • A/59/193/Add.1, 21 December 2004
    
  • A/59/193/Add.2, 24 March 2005
    
  • A/59/193/Corr.1, 28 December 2004
     
  • A/59/193/Corr.2, 28 June 2005
     
  • A/59/193/Corr.3, 2 June 2006
     
• A/58/203, 21 August 2003
  
  • A58/203/Add.1, 6 November 2003
    
  • A58/203/Add.2, 22 January 2004
    
  • A58/203/Add.3, 12 April 2004
    
  • A58/203/Corr.1, 23 January 2004
    
  • A58/203/Corr.2, 12 April 2004
    
  • A58/203/Corr.3, 24 March 2005
    
• A/57/221, 17 July 2002
  
  • A/57/221/Add.1, September 2002
    
  • A/57/221/Add.2, November 2002
    
  • A/57/221/Add.3, 7 April 2003
    
  • A/57/221/Corr.1, September 2002
    
  • A/57/221/Corr.2, March 2003
    
• A/56/257, 31 July 2001
  
  • A/56/257/Add.1, 27 Nov 2001
    
  • A/56/257/Add. 2, 5 Mar 2002
    
• A/55/299, 15 Aug 2000 
  
  • A/55/299/Add.1, 20 Sep 2000  
    
  • A/55/299/Add.2, 16 Oct 2000
    
  • A/55/299/Add.3, 9 Nov 2000
    
  • A/55/299/Add.4, 12 Jan 2001
    
  • A/55/299/Add.5, 16 Feb 2001
    
  • A/55/299/Add.6, 7 May 2001
    
  • A/55/299/Corr.1, 5 April 2001
    

          REPORTS OF THE GROUP OF GOVERNMENTAL EXPERTS

                      ON THE REGISTER OF CONVENTIONAL ARMS

• Report of the 2006 Group, A/61/261, 15 August 2006
  
• Report of the 2003 Group, A/58/274, 13 August 2003
  
• Report of the 2000 Group, A/55/281, 9 August 2000
  
• Report of the 1997 Group, A/52/316, 29 August 1997
  
• Report of the 1994 Group, A/49/316, 22 September 1994
  
• Report of the 1992 Panel of Governmental Technical Experts,
  A/47/342, 14 August 1992
  

                      RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

• Resolution 61/77, 18 December 2006
  
• Resolution 60/226, 23 December 2005
  
• Resolution 58/54, 10 December 2003
  
• Resolution 57/75, 22 November 2002
  
• Resolution 56/24Q, 29 November 2001
  
• Resolution 55/33 U, 20 November 2000
  
• Resolution 54/54 I, 1 December 1999
  
• Resolution 54/54 O, 1 December 1999
  
• Resolution 53/77 S, 4 December 1998
  
• Resolution 53/77 V, 4 December 1998
  

                 DOCUMENTS RELATED TO ARMS TRANSPARENCY

• Guidelines and recommendations for objective information on military matters:  Report of the Disarmament Commission (A/47/42, 9 June 1992)
  
• Study on ways and means of promoting transparency in international transfers of conventional arms   -Report of the Secretary-General, A/46/301, 9 September 1991
  
• International Arms Transfers - General Assembly Resolution 46/36 H, 6 December 1991
  

• Report of the Disarmament Commission Supplement No. 42, A/51/42, 22 May 1996  -Guidelines for international arms transfers in the context of General Assembly resolution

  46/36 H of 6 December 1991 (abridged)

         

• 1994 Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Transparency in Armaments, Conference on Disarmament

  CD/1274 of 30 August 1994

  

• 1993 Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Transparency in Armaments, Conference on Disarmament

  CD/1218 of 24 August 1993

  

• Conventional arms transfers and non-proliferation: communiqu? by the five Permanent Members of the Security Council

  CD 1103 of 19 August 1991         

  CD 1113 of 26 November 1991   

   

                           PRESS RELEASES, STATEMENTS, ETC.

• Experts report significant progress on United Nations Conventional Arms Register
• Fifth Expert Review of the Register of Conventional Arms at Headquarters, 27 February to 3 March
• UN holding regional meeting in Nairobi to discuss conventional arms issues
• Disarmament workshops address issues of transparency, small arms in ?Nairobi declaration? countries
• Group of Governmental Experts on UN Register of Conventional Arms concludes Headquarters session
• Expert review of Register of Conventional Arms at Headquarters, 17-21 March 
• UN report gains in gathering information on governments' defence spending levels
• Transparency in Military Matters Grows

• If effectiveness of UN Arms Register is strengthened, it can serve as significant early-warning mechanism

                 CONFIDENCE AND SECURITY-BUILDING MEASURES

• OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation: Information Exchanges
• US Department of State: CSBMs
• OAS Permanent Council, Committee on Hemispheric Security: CSBMs
• OAS Resolution on Military Expenditures and Register of Conventional Arms  

                 NON-GOVERNMENTAL SOURCES OF DATA ON ARMS TRANSFERS

• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (The Arms Transfer Project)
• International Institute for Strategic Studies (The Military Balance 2007)
• Congressional Research Service (Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 1999-2006)

                         TRANSPARENCY MECHANISMS OF

                                       THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

• Armaments Yearbook: General and Statistical Information

• Yearbook on Trade in Arms and Ammunition

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