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Objective Information on Military Matters, Including Transparency of Military Expenditures

A/RES/53/72No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda items 65Reduction of military budgets and 65bObjective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures, published in 1999.

What other versions does this mandate have?

17 versions · 1994–2025
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/12
  • 2025A/RES/80/12Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expendituresLatestCompare with previous version
  • 2022A/RES/77/33Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expendituresCompare with previous version
  • 2019A/RES/74/24Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expendituresCompare with previous version
  • 2017A/RES/72/20Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expendituresCompare with previous version
  • 2015A/RES/70/21Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expendituresCompare with previous version

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 topics
ConsultationsGuidelinesInformation ExchangeMilitary ExpendituresRecommendationsReporting ProceduresStandardization

What does this mandate say?

13 operative paragraphs
1
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;
2
Welcomes the resumption on 23 April 1998 by the Secretary-General of consultations with relevant international bodies with a view to ascertaining the requirements for adjusting the present instrument to encourage wider participation;
3
Expresses its appreciation to the Secretary-General for providing Member States with a report1 on the outcome of those consultations containing, inter alia, recommendations on ways and means to enhance the participation in the standardized reporting instrument;
4
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, preferably and to the extent possible, the reporting instrument as recommended in its resolution 35/142 B or, as appropriate, any other format developed in conjunction with similar reporting on military expenditures to other international or regional organizations;
5
Encourages relevant international bodies and regional organizations to promote transparency of military expenditures and to enhance complementarity among reporting systems, taking into account the particular characteristics of each region;
6
Requests the Secretary-General:
a
To resume the practice of sending an annual note verbale to Member States requesting the submission of data to the reporting system, together with the reporting format and related instructions, and to publish in a timely fashion in appropriate United Nations media the due date for transmitting data on military expenditures;
b
To promote international and regional symposia and training seminars to explain the purpose of the United Nations system for the standardized reporting of military expenditures and to give relevant technical instructions;
c
To circulate annually the reports on military expenditures as received from Member States;
7
Also requests the Secretary-General to continue consultations with relevant international bodies, within existing resources, with a view to ascertaining the requirements for adjusting the present instrument to encourage wider participation, with emphasis on examining possibilities for enhancing complementarity among international and regional reporting systems and to exchange related information with those bodies;
8
Further requests the Secretary-General to make recommendations, based on the outcome of those consultations and taking into account the views of Member States, on necessary changes to the content and structure of the United Nations system for the standardized reporting of military expenditures in order to strengthen and broaden participation, and to submit a report on the subject to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session;
9
Calls upon all Member States, in time for the deliberation by the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session, to provide the Secretary-General with their views on the analysis and the recommendations contained in his report1 and with further suggestions to strengthen and broaden participation in the United Nations system for the standardized reporting of military expenditures, including necessary changes to its content and structure;
10
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session the item entitled “Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures”.

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