The Arms Trade Treaty

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

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

What else is in this group?

16 documents · 2010–2025

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 2025).

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/46	The Arms Trade Treaty	1,940	–
2024	A/RES/79/52	The Arms Trade Treaty	1,901	–
2023	A/RES/78/48	The Arms Trade Treaty	1,733	–
2022	A/RES/77/62	The Arms Trade Treaty	1,568	–
2021	A/RES/76/50	The Arms Trade Treaty	1,535	–

This group bundles related documents that are not individually ordered.

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2014

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2014	A/69/173	The Arms Trade Treaty report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/68/31

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 subjects

Arms Transfers Treaties

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the adoption of the Arms Trade Treaty on 2 April 2013;²

²See resolution 67/234 B.

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;

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;

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;

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;

Decides to remain seized of the matter.

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