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Implementing an Arms Trade Treaty: Mapping Assistance to Strengthen Arms Transfer Controls (SIPRI: July 2012)

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Transparency in Military Spending and Arms Acquisitions in Latin America and the Caribbean (SIPRI: January 2012)

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The Review of the EU Common Position on Arms Exports: Prospects for Strengthened Controls (SIPRI: January 2012)

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National Reports on Arms Exports (SIPRI: March 2011)

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The Limitations of European Union Reports on Arms Exports: The Case of Central Asia (SIPRI: September 2010)

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End-user Certificates: Improving Standards to Prevent Diversion (SIPRI: March 2010)

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Arms Transfers to Europe and Central Asia (SIPRI: February 2010)

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Arms Transfers to East and Southern Africa (SIPRI: December 2009)

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Arms Flows to the Conflict in Chad (SIPRI: August 2009)

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Arms Transfers to the Middle East (SIPRI: July 2009)

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Arms Transfers to the Americas (SIPRI: June 2009)

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Bromley, M., Lewis, M., Greene, O. et al

The Control of Air Transportation of Small Arms and Light Weapons and Munitions: A Comparative Study of National Systems Utilised in the European Union May 2009)

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Enforcing European Union Law on Exports of Dual-use Goods (Oxford University Press: April 2009)

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Arms Transfers to Central, North and West Africa (SIPRI: April 2009)

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Reporting Transfers of Small Arms and Light Weapons to the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms, 2007 (SIPRI: February 2009)

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Transparency in Transfers of Small Arms and Light Weapons: Reports to the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms, 2003–2006 (SIPRI: July 2008)

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The Impact on Domestic Policy of the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports: The Czech Republic, the Netherlands and Spain (SIPRI: May 2008)

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United Nations Arms Embargoes: Their Impact on Arms Flows and Target Behaviour (SIPRI and Uppsala University: November 2007)

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SPITS and SIPRI - United Nations arms embargoes: Their impact on arms flows and target behaviour

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Contents

I. Introduction

II. The breakdown of the small arms and light weapons process

III. Evolution of the arms trade treaty initiative

IV. Key issues for an arms trade treaty

V. Conclusions

Read the full appendix [PDF].

Summary

In December 2006, 153 governments voted in favour of a UN General Assembly resolution towards creation of an international arms trade treaty; the USA was the only country that voted against. At the July 2006 UN Small Arms Review Conference the USA also opposed expansion of the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons. Both processes have their origins in civil society campaigns that were later taken up by governments.

Despite the diverse challenges that the arms trade treaty initiative faces, it remains the most significant global development in conventional arms transfer controls since the end of the cold war.

Dr Paul Holtom (UK) is a Researcher with the SIPRI Arms Transfers Project.

Siemon T. Wezeman (Netherlands) is Leader of the SIPRI Arms Transfers Project.

Associated research area

Armament and disarmament

Dual–use and arms trade control

Arms export controls

Language English

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