Arms Watch: SIPRI Report on the First Year of the UN Register of Conventional Arms

Siemon T. Wezeman, Herbert Wulf and Edward J. Laurance

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN 0-19-829179-5

143 pp.

1993

This report documents the government submissions to the UN on the transfer of arms in 1992, and compares this data with information published by SIPRI. It assesses the results of this important new UN Register in its first year, and the prospects for improving it in 1994.

Contents

1. Executive summary

2. Introduction

3. The first year of reporting

4. A comparison of SIPRI data with the UN Register of Conventional Arms

5. Conclusions

Annexe 1. Returns to the UN Register of Conventional Arms for arms transfers in 1992 compared with SIPRI data

Annexe 2. The SIPRI register of trade in and licensed production of major conventional weapons, 1992

Annexe 3. Documentation

ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)/EDITORS

Siemon T. Wezeman is a Senior Researcher in the SIPRI Arms Transfers Programme.