Towards an Arms Trade Treaty : Establishing Common International Standards for the Import, Export and Transfer of Conventional Arms

A/RES/63/240View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda items 89 General and complete disarmament and 89f Transparency in armaments, published in 2009.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2006–2009

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2009	A/RES/63/240	Towards an arms trade treaty : establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms	958	47%Compare
2006	A/RES/61/89	Towards an arms trade treaty : establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms	527	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

3 reports · 2007

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2007	A/62/278/Add.1	Towards an arms trade treaty establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms : report of the Secretary-General : addendum	A/RES/61/89
2007	A/62/278(Part I)	Towards an arms trade treaty : establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms : report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/61/89
2007	A/62/278(Part II)	Towards an arms trade treaty establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms : report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/61/89

What subjects does this mandate have?

12 subjects

Arms Transfers Conventional Weapons Exports Illicit Arms Trafficking Imports Information Transfer International Instruments International Obligations Organized Crime Standards Terrorism Working Groups

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Endorses the report of the Secretary-General2 prepared with the assistance of the Group of Governmental Experts, taking into account the views of Member States;1

Encourages all States to implement and address, on a national basis, the relevant recommendations contained in paragraphs 28 and 29 of the report of the Secretary-General, and commends all States to carefully consider how to achieve such implementation in order to ensure that their national systems and internal controls are at the highest possible standards to prevent the diversion of conventional arms from the legal to the illicit market, where they can be used for terrorist acts, organized crime and other criminal activities, and further calls upon those States in a position to do so to render assistance in this regard upon request;

Decides, in order to facilitate further consideration on the implementation of the relevant recommendation contained in paragraph 27 of the report of the Secretary-General on a step-by-step basis among all States Members of the United Nations, in an open and transparent manner, to establish an open-ended working group, to meet for up to six one-week sessions starting in 2009, of which the two sessions foreseen in 2009 will be held in New York, from 2 to 6 March and 13 to 17 July, respectively;

Decides also that the open-ended working group will hold a one-day organizational session in New York by 27 February 2009 in order to agree on the organizational arrangements connected with the working group, including the dates and venues for its future substantive sessions;

Decides further that the open-ended working group will, during 2009, further consider those elements in the report of the Group of Governmental Experts2 where consensus could be developed for their inclusion in an eventual legally binding treaty on the import, export and transfer of conventional arms which provides a balance giving benefit to all, with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations and other existing international obligations at the centre of such considerations, and transmit an initial report from the working group to the General Assembly for consideration at its sixty-fourth session;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit the replies of Member States and the report of the Group of Governmental Experts to the open-ended working group and to render the working group all necessary assistance, including the provision of essential background information and relevant documents;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-fourth session an item entitled “Towards an arms trade treaty: establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms”.

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