Objective Information on Military Matters, Including Transparency of Military Expenditures

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda items 53a Reduction of military budgets, 53b Transparency of military expenditures and 64f Implementation of the guidelines and recommendations for objective information on military matters, published in 1994.

What other versions does this mandate have?

17 versions · 1994–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/12

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/12	Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures	1,364	98%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/33	Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures	1,343	99%Compare
2019	A/RES/74/24	Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures	1,338	85%Compare
2017	A/RES/72/20	Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures	1,515	84%Compare
2015	A/RES/70/21	Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures	1,416	87%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

23 reports · 2005–2026

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2026	A/81/203	Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/80/12
2025	A/80/225	Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/33
2024	A/79/218	Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/33
2023	A/78/158	Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/33
2022	A/77/159	Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/74/24

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Guidelines Information Exchange Military Budgets Military Expenditures Reporting Procedures Standardization

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

A/49/190 and Add.1 and 2.

A/49/225.

Recommends the guidelines and recommendations for objective information on military matters to all Member States for implementation, fully taking into account specific political, military and other conditions prevailing in a region, on the basis of initiatives and with the agreement of the States of the region concerned;

Calls upon all Member States to report annually, by 30 April, to the Secretary-General, their military expenditures for the latest fiscal year for which data are available, using, for the time being, the reporting instrument as recommended in its resolution 35/142 B;

Requests the Secretary-General to circulate annually the reports on military expenditures, as received from Member States;

Also requests the Secretary-General to seek the views of Member States on ways and means to implement the guidelines and recommendations for objective information on military matters, including, in particular, how to strengthen and broaden participation in the United Nations system for the standardized reporting of military expenditures, and to submit a report on the subject to the General Assembly at its fifty-first session;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-first session the item entitled "Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures".

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