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The Arms Trade Treaty

A/RES/68/31No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 99ddThe Arms Trade Treaty, published in 2013.

What else is in this group?

16 documents · 2010–2025
Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 2025).
  • 2025A/RES/80/46The Arms Trade TreatyCompare with earlier document
  • 2024A/RES/79/52The Arms Trade TreatyCompare with earlier document
  • 2023A/RES/78/48The Arms Trade TreatyCompare with earlier document
  • 2022A/RES/77/62The Arms Trade TreatyCompare with earlier document
  • 2021A/RES/76/50The Arms Trade TreatyCompare with earlier document

This group bundles related documents that are not individually ordered.

iGrouped automatically by matching titles within the same organ.

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 topics
Arms TransfersTreaties

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 2014.

  • 2014A/69/173The Arms Trade Treaty report of the Secretary-General

iIdentified automatically from the metadata in each report’s UN Digital Library catalogue record.

What does this mandate say?

6 operative paragraphs
1
Welcomes the adoption of the Arms Trade Treaty on 2 April 2013;
2
Notes that the Treaty was opened for signature at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 3 June 2013, will remain open for signature thereafter until its entry into force and, following its entry into force, will be open for accession for any State that has not signed the Treaty;
3
Calls upon all States that have not yet done so to sign and, thereafter, according to their respective constitutional processes, ratify, accept or approve the Treaty at the earliest possible date;
4
Calls upon those States in a position to do so to provide assistance, including legal or legislative assistance, institutional capacity-building and technical, material or financial assistance, to requesting States that intend to become parties to the Treaty, in order to facilitate its early entry into force;
5
Requests the Secretary-General, as depositary of the Treaty, to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session on the status of signature and ratification, acceptance or approval of the Treaty;
6
Decides to remain seized of the matter.

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