Preventing and Combating Illicit Brokering Activities

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 98ii Preventing and combating illicit brokering activities, published in 2016.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 2009–2018

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/73/63

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2018	A/RES/73/63	Preventing and combating illicit brokering activities	927	72%Compare
2016	A/RES/71/36	Preventing and combating illicit brokering activities	1,084	80%Compare
2014	A/RES/69/62	Preventing and combating illicit brokering activities	933	86%Compare
2013	A/RES/67/43	Preventing and combating illicit brokering activities	857	89%Compare
2011	A/RES/65/75	Preventing and combating illicit brokering activities	790	71%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Arms Transfers Conventional Weapons Illicit Arms Trafficking

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Underlines the commitment of Member States to address the threat posed by illicit brokering activities;

Encourages Member States to fully implement relevant international treaties, instruments and resolutions to prevent and combat illicit brokering activities, and implement, where appropriate, the recommendations contained in the report of the Group of Governmental Experts;4

Calls upon Member States to establish appropriate national laws and/or measures to prevent and combat the illicit brokering of conventional arms and materials, equipment and technology that could contribute to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery, in a manner consistent with international law;

Acknowledges that national efforts to prevent and combat illicit brokering activities can be reinforced by such efforts at the regional and subregional levels;

Emphasizes the importance of international cooperation and assistance, capacity-building and information-sharing in preventing and combating illicit brokering activities, and encourages Member States to take such measures as appropriate and in a manner consistent with international law;

Encourages Member States to draw, where appropriate, on the relevant expertise of civil society in developing effective measures to prevent and combat illicit brokering activities;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-third session, under the item entitled “General and complete disarmament”, the sub-item entitled “Preventing and combating illicit brokering activities”.

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