Through-Life Conventional Ammunition Management

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 99u Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus, published in 2023.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2023–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/43

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/43	Through-life conventional ammunition management	2,064	91%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/54	Through-life conventional ammunition management	2,017	84%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/47	Through-life conventional ammunition management	1,967	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2025

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2025	A/80/238	Through-life conventional ammunition management report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/79/54

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Ammunition Conferences Conventional Weapons Fellowships Stockpile Management Technical Cooperation Training Programmes

What’s in this document?

19 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the final report of the open-ended working group, established pursuant to resolution 76/233, contained in document A/78/111, and the recommendations contained therein;

Decides to adopt the Global Framework for Through-life Conventional Ammunition Management,¹² which is a cooperative framework that is voluntary and contains a set of political commitments for strengthening and promoting existing initiatives on, and addressing existing gaps in, through-life conventional ammunition management, as contained in the annex to the final report of the open-ended working group;

¹²Ibid., annex.

Calls upon all States to implement the Global Framework on the basis of the guiding principles expressed therein;

Encourages the United Nations, including under the SaferGuard programme with, inter alia, its quick-response mechanism, and international, regional and subregional organizations, as well as other relevant stakeholders, including non-governmental organizations and civil society, academia, research institutions and industry, to promote and support the implementation of the Global Framework, and calls upon all relevant stakeholders to consider using the International Ammunition Technical Guidelines when supporting national authorities;

Encourages all States to develop, strengthen and implement measures, mechanisms and initiatives, within national, regional and subregional frameworks, as appropriate, to address the safety and security risks associated with conventional ammunition, including diversion, illicit trafficking and unplanned explosions of conventional ammunition, in line with the Global Framework;

Requests the Secretary-General to implement the new mandates assigned to the Secretariat in the Global Framework as contained in section IV, paragraphs 22 and 26, and section V, paragraphs 29, 34 and 37, thereof,¹³ and to strengthen the SaferGuard programme to implement the assigned mandates as contained in section IV, paragraph 23, and section V, paragraph 36, thereof, and to present the respective budgetary requirements in his next proposed programme budget;

¹³Ibid.

Decides to convene a meeting of States in 2027 for two weeks (20 meetings), in New York, to review the implementation of the Global Framework, in line with section V, paragraph 31 thereof, with the participation, as observers, of relevant international and regional organizations and other relevant stakeholders, including non-governmental organizations and civil society, academia, research institutions and industry, and further decides that the Chair may hold informal consultations ahead of the Meeting of States;

Also decides to convene a preparatory meeting of States in 2025 for five days (10 meetings), in New York, to explore possible options for the development of the process and modalities for the effective implementation of the Global Framework and to prepare for the Meeting of States in 2027, with the participation, as observers, of relevant international and regional organizations and other relevant stakeholders, including non-governmental organizations and civil society, academia, research institutions and industry;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide the support necessary to convene the preparatory meeting of States and the Meeting of States;

Encourages States to provide voluntary information, in line with section V, paragraphs 30 and 34 of the Global Framework, on steps taken to implement the Global Framework, and requests the Secretary-General to receive and circulate such information;

Decides to establish a new standing dedicated fellowship training programme on through-life conventional ammunition management in order to strengthen the technical and practical knowledge and expertise of government officials directly responsible for the implementation of the Global Framework for Through-life Conventional Ammunition Management, particularly in developing countries, to be substantively developed and designed in 2025 and implemented annually starting in 2026 for a duration of four weeks in-person in four regions, respectively, preceded by a preparatory self-paced online course, with the participation of 15 fellows from each of the four regions, Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean and other regions, ensuring the full, equal, meaningful and effective participation of women and equitable geographic representation, and requests the Secretary-General to present the budgetary requirements in his next proposed programme budget to operationalize this decision and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its eightieth session, and periodically thereafter for follow-up;

Requests the Secretary-General to strengthen the SaferGuard programme, which serves as the custodian of the International Ammunition Technical Guidelines, and to include the budgetary requirements in his next proposed programme budget and, in this regard, also requests the Secretary-General to review, update and translate into other official languages the International Ammunition Technical Guidelines, on an ongoing basis, and to develop voluntary operational guidelines related to security aspects of the through-life management of conventional ammunition in the framework of the International Ammunition Technical Guidelines under the SaferGuard programme, with the assistance of technical experts from interested States, while ensuring the full, equal, meaningful and effective participation of women and equitable geographic representation and taking into account and complementing relevant existing standards, guidelines and good practices, without duplicating them;

Invites relevant regional and subregional organizations to establish, where needed, and to maintain regional and subregional rosters of experts validated according to the International Ammunition Technical Guidelines, as appropriate;

Encourages States in a position to do so to assist interested States within a bilateral framework or through international or regional organizations, including through activities conducted under the umbrella of the SaferGuard programme, on a voluntary and transparent basis, in elaborating and implementing programmes to improve the safe, secure and sustainable through-life management of conventional ammunition;

Encourages States, as appropriate, to consider through-life conventional ammunition management as an intrinsic part of their actions for achieving relevant targets of the Sustainable Development Goals related to the reduction of illicit arms flows and the prevention of violence through strengthened national institutions,¹⁴ and to consider, where relevant, developing national, regional and subregional indicators based on this understanding;

¹⁴See resolution 70/1.

Encourages consideration of the integration of through-life conventional ammunition management measures, where relevant, in the mandates of peacekeeping operations, including through the training of personnel of national authorities and peacekeepers, utilizing the International Ammunition Technical Guidelines;

Reiterates its decision to address the issue of through-life conventional ammunition management in a comprehensive manner;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its eightieth session on the implementation of the present resolution, including on the implementation of the Global Framework;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-ninth session, under the item entitled “General and complete disarmament”, a sub-item entitled “Through-life conventional ammunition management”.

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