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General Assembly Distr.: General 14 July 2009 English Original: Arabic/Chinese/English/ French/Russian/Spanish United Nations A/64/135 General Assembly Distr.: General 14 July 2009 English Original: Arabic/Chinese/English/ French/Russian/Spanish Sixty-fourth session Item 95 (w) of the preliminary list* General and complete disarmament: transparency in armaments United Nations Register of Conventional Arms Report of the Secretary-General Summary The present report is the seventeenth consolidated report issued by the Secretary-General since the establishment of the Register.** It contains data and information provided by 58 Governments on the international transfers of major conventional arms covered by the Register and additional background information for the calendar year 2008. Any additional replies received from Governments will be issued as addenda to the present report. Section II of the present report includes an index of information submitted by Governments and their replies on conventional arms transfers. Section III contains background information submitted by Governments on military holdings and procurement through national production. Section IV includes background information submitted by Governments on international transfers of small arms and light weapons. All relevant information on the Register is available electronically on the Register website of the Office for Disarmament Affairs at http://disarmament.un.org/ cab/register.html. * A/64/50. ** The first to sixteenth reports were issued under the following symbols: A/48/344 and Corr.1-3 and Add.1-3; A/49/352 and Corr.1-2 and Add.1-4; A/50/547 and Corr.1 and Add.1-4; A/51/300 and Add.1-5; A/52/312 and Corr.1-2 and Add.1-4; A/53/334 and Corr.1-2 and Add.1-2; A/54/226 and Corr.1 and Add.1-6; A/55/299 and Corr.1 and Add.1-6; A/56/257 and Corr.1 and Add.1-2; A/57/221 and Corr.1-2 and Add.1-3; A/58/203 and Corr.1-2 and Add.1-2; A/59/193 and Corr.1-2 and Add.1-2; A/60/160 and Corr.1-2 and Add.1-3; A/61/159 and Corr.1-2 and Add.1-3; A/62/170 and Add.1-3; A/63/120 and Add.1-3. 09-40242 (E) 030909 *0940242* A/64/135 Contents Paragraphs Page I. Introduction ......................................................... 1–3 3 II. Information received from Governments.................................. 4–5 3 A. Index of information submitted by Governments................................. 4 B. Replies received from Governments on conventional arms transfers ................. 6 III. Information received from Governments on military holdings and procurement through national production ............................................................. 47 IV. Information received from Governments on international transfers of SALW.............. 77 2 09-40242 A/64/135 I. Introduction 1. The present report is the seventeenth consolidated report on the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms, and is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 63/69. 2. The Office for Disarmament Affairs organized a number of promotional events related to the United Nations Register. They included a regional workshop on transparency in armaments for West African States, held in Dakar, Senegal, on 9 and 10 June 2009. The workshop was aimed at raising awareness of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms among governmental representatives of the West African countries, enhancing practical skills while compiling national reports and encouraging greater participation of States from the region in the Register. 3. Furthermore, the Office for Disarmament Affairs produced relevant background publications on the subject, which can be accessed at the web page as follows: http://www.un.org/disarmament/HomePage/ODAPublications/OccasionalPapers. II. Information received from Governments1 4. Information received from Governments is presented below as follows: • Section A — an index received by the Secretary-General; • Section B — individual replies of Governments on transfers of conventional arms. Where appropriate, the relevant parts of notes verbale are reproduced. 5. The index of returns is provided for ease of reference. As regards the information contained in the index, it should be noted that a “yes” denotes a submission of data regarding imports and/or exports in relation to the seven categories of arms covered by the Register during the reporting period. For the purpose of uniform tabulation, responses by Governments that contained either “nil”, “none”, “0”, a dash (-) or which otherwise indicated that no exports and/or imports in the categories covered by the Register had taken place are reflected in the tables as “nil” reports. A blank space under data on imports and/or exports in the index of information indicates that no information was provided. In some cases, however, an explanation can be found in the note verbale of the country in question, as indicated above. Only those parts of the standardized forms that contain specific data and notes verbale of Governments providing relevant information, are reproduced in section B. Replies in the standardized reporting forms and the simplified “nil” reporting form or in notes verbale containing “nil” or blank reports are listed in the index of information only. __________________ 1 Documents have been reproduced as received; the designations employed do not imply the expression of any opinion on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory or area, or of its authorities. 09-40242 3 A/64/135 A. Index of information submitted by Governments Background information Procurement Report Data on Data on International State Military through received on exports imports transfers of holdings national SALW production 1. ANDORRA 27.04.09 nil nil a 2. ARGENTINA 10.06.09 nil yes yes nil nil 3. ARMENIA 01.06.09 nil nil yes yes 4. AUSTRALIA 29.06.09 nil yes yes yes yes 5. BELARUS 03.06.09 yes nil 6. BELGIUM 25.06.09 yes yes yes yes 7. BELIZE 02.07.09 nil nil 8. BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 23.06.09 nil nil 9. BRAZIL 29.05.06 nil yes 10. BULGARIA 22.06.09 yes yes yes nil yes 11. CANADA 25.06.09 yes yes yes yes yes 12. CHINA 09.06.09 yes nil 13. COSTA RICA 07.07.09 nil nil 14. CROATIA 22.05.09 nil yes yes 15. CYPRUS 21.05.09 nil nil nil 16. CZECH REPUBLIC 28.05.09 yes yes yes 17. ESTONIA 20.05.09 yes yes yes 18. FINLAND 29.05.09 yes yes yes yes 19. FRANCE 07.07.09 yes nil yes yes yes 20. GERMANY 24.06.09 yes yes yes yes yes 21. GRENADA 08.05.09 nil nil 22. HUNGARY 12.06.09 yes yes yes 23. INDIA 22.06.09 nil yes 24. IRELAND 27.05.09 nil yes yes 25. ITALY 02.07.07 nil yes yes yes yes b 26. JAPAN 31.05.09 nil nil yes yes 27. LATVIA 08.06.09 nil yes yes 28. LEBANON 02.06.09 nil nil nil nil 29. LIECHTENSTEIN 25.05.09 nil nil yes 30. LITHUANIA 20.05.09 nil nil yes yes 31. MALAYSIA 02.07.07 nil yes 32. MEXICO 27.05.09 nil nil yes 33. MOLDOVA 27.05.09 nil nil yes 34. MONACO 27.02.09 nil nil 35. NAURU 16.03.09 nil nil 36. NETHERLANDS 01.07.09 yes yes yes nil yes 37. NEW ZEALAND 29.05.09 yes nil yes yes 38. NORWAY 09.06.09 yes yes yes yes 39. PANAMA 11.06.09 nil nil yes 40. PERU 29.05.09 nil yes yes 41. POLAND 25.06.09 yes yes yes 4 09-40242 A/64/135 Background information Procurement Report Data on Data on International State Military through received on exports imports transfers of holdings national SALW production 42. PORTUGAL 11.06.09 yes yes yes 43. ROMANIA 16.06.09 yes yes yes nil yes 44. RUSSIAN FEDERATION 29.05.09 yes yes 45. SAMOA 05.06.09 nil nil 46. SEYCHELLES 01.04.09 nil nil 47. SINGAPORE 26.05.09 nil yes 48. SLOVENIA 09.06.09 nil yes yes 49. SOLOMON ISLANDS 13.04.09 nil nil 50. SPAIN 20.05.09 yes yes yes yes 51. SWAZILAND 24.06.09 nil nil nil 52. SWITZERLAND 28.05.09 yes yes yes nil yes 53. TAJIKISTAN 20.05.09 nil nil 54. THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA 18.03.09 nil nil 55. TURKEY 22.06.09 yes yes yes 56. UKRAINE 01.06.09 yes yes yes 57. UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND 08.07.09 yes yes yes yes yes c NORTHERN IRELAND 58. VIET NAM 30.05.09 nil nil a) Argentina also provided data on its military holdings of small arms and light weapons. b) Japan provided a paper on its “Policies on the control of arms export” as well as information on SALW procurement through national production. c) The United Kingdom provided also provided information on SALW destroyed by the Ministry of Defense between 1 January and 31 December 2008. 09-40242 5 A/64/135 B. Replies received from Governments on conventional arms transfers Argentina Reporting country: Argentina Original language: Spanish Calendar year: 2008 Background information provided: yes Date of submission: 10 June 2009 IMPORTS A B C D E Remarks Category Exporter Number State of Intermediate Description of Comments on (I-VII) State(s) of items origin location item the transfer (if not (if any) exported) IV. Combat USA 2 Sweden - SAAB 340B Transport aircraft V. Attack USA 2 UH-3H Transport helicopters 6 09-40242 A/64/135 Australia Reporting country: Australia Original language: English Calendar year: 2008 Background information provided: yes Date of submission: 29 June 2009 IMPORTS A B C D E Remarks State of Category Exporter Number of origin Intermediate Comments on the Description of item (I-VII) State(s) items (if not location transfer exporter) V.
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