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General Assembly Distr.: General 14 July 2008 United Nations A/63/120 General Assembly Distr.: General 14 July 2008 Original: Arabic/English/French/ Russian/Spanish Sixty-third session Item 91 (f) 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 sixteenth consolidated report issued by the Secretary- General since the establishment of the Register.** It contains data and information provided by 67 Governments on the international transfers of major conventional arms covered by the Register and/or additional background information for the calendar year 2007. 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/63/50. ** The first to fifteenth reports were issued under the following symbols: A/48/344 and Corr.1-3 and Add.1-3; A/49/352 and Corr.1 and 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 and 2 and Add.1-4; A/53/334 and Corr.1 and 2 and Add.1 and 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 and 2; A/57/221 and Corr.1 and 2 and Add.1-3; A/58/203 and Corr.1-3 and Add.1-3; A/59/193 and Corr.1-3 and Add.1 and 2; A/60/160 and Corr.1 and 2 and Add.1-3; A/61/159 and Corr.1 and 2 and Add.1-3; A/62/170 and Add.1-3. 08-42171S (E) 290808 *0842171* A/63/120 Contents Paragraphs Page I. Introduction ......................................................... 1–2 3 II. Information received from Governments.................................. 3–4 3 A. Index of information submitted by Governments................................. 5 B. Replies received from Governments on conventional arms transfer.................. 7 III. Information received from Governments on military holdings and procurement through national production ............................................................. 53 IV. Information received from Governments on international transfers of SALW.............. 83 Annex Views received from Governments in accordance with paragraph 7 (a) of General Assembly resolution 61/77................................................................ 137 2 08-42171 A/63/120 I. Introduction 1. The present report is the sixteenth consolidated report on the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms, and is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 61/77. 2. The Office for Disarmament Affairs engaged in a number of activities related to the United Nations Register. It published “Information Booklet 2007” and “Guidelines for Reporting International Transfers: Questions and Answers”, which can be accessed at the Register web page at http://disarmament.un.org/cab/ register.html. Additionally, the Office produced and updated the following electronic publications related to the Register: “International transfers of small arms and light weapons: calendar year 2006”; “United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database: Export and Import of Small Arms and Light Weapons”; and “United Nations Register of Conventional Arms: Pattern of Reporting by States: 1992-2006”, which are also accessible at the web page. In order to facilitate deliberations, the Office distributed information sheets containing tables and graphs on the United Nations Register to delegations during the session of the First Committee of the General Assembly in October 2007. On 13 May 2008, the Office also made a presentation and provided background material on the Register to the second session of the Group of Governmental Experts to examine the feasibility of a legally binding instrument on the import, export and transfer of conventional arms. With a view to organizing regional workshops as recommended by the 2006 Group of Governmental Experts on the Register (A/61/261), the Office for Disarmament Affairs continued its efforts at fund-raising for this purpose. In addition, it launched a pilot project entitled “Electronic Filing of National Reports in the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms”. The Office also made a presentation at a regional policy seminar on implementing arms transfer control commitments, held in Moscow on 12 March 2008. II. Information received from Governments1 3. Information received from Governments is presented below as follows: • Section A — an index of information 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. 4. 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 __________________ 1 As recommended in the 2006 report of the Group of Governmental Experts (A/61/261) and endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolution 61/77, the present report contains only transfers involving States Members of the United Nations. 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. 08-42171 3 A/63/120 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. 4 08-42171 A/63/120 A. Index of information submitted by Governments Background information Data Data Explanation Procurement International State on on submitted in Military through transfers of exports imports note verbale holdings national SALW production 1. ALBANIA nil nil yes 2. ARMENIA nil nil yes 3. AUSTRIA yes yes 4. BELARUS yes nil 5. BOSNIA AND yes nil HERZEGOVINA yes 6. BRAZIL nil yes yes yes 7. BRUNEI DARUSSALAM nil yes 8. CANADA yes yes yes yes yes 9. CHINA yes yes 10. COLOMBIA yes yes 11. CROATIA nil yes yes 12. CZECH REPUBLIC yes yes yes 13. DENMARK nil yes yes 14. DJIBOUTI nil nil 15. ESTONIA nil nil yes 16. FINLAND yes yes yes yes 17. FRANCE yes nil yes yes yes 18. GEORGIA nil yes yes 19. GERMANY yes yes yes yes yes 20. GREECE yes yes yes yes yes 21. GRENADA nil nil 22. GUATEMALA nil nil 23. HUNGARY yes yes yes yes 24. ICELAND nil nil 25. INDIA nil yes 26. INDONESIA nil yes yes 27. IRELAND nil yes 28. ITALY yes yes yes yes yes a 29. JAPAN nil nil yes yes 30. LATVIA nil yes yes 31. LEBANON nil nil yes 32. LIECHTENSTEIN nil nil yes 33. LITHUANIA nil yes yes yes 34. MALDIVES nil nil 35. MAURITIUS nil nil 36. MEXICO nil yes yes b 37. MOLDOVA nil nil nil 08-42171 5 A/63/120 Background information Data Data Explanation Procurement International State on on submitted in Military through transfers of exports imports note verbale holdings national SALW production 38. MONACO nil nil 39. MONGOLIA nil nil 40. MONTENEGRO yes nil yes 41. NAURU nil nil 42. NETHERLANDS yes yes yes yes yes 43. NEW ZEALAND yes yes yes yes 44. NORWAY nil nil yes yes 45. PAKISTAN nil yes 46. PALAU nil nil 47. POLAND yes yes yes yes yes 48. PORTUGAL nil yes yes 49. ROMANIA yes yes yes yes 50. RUSSIAN FEDERATION yes yes 51. SAMOA nil nil 52. SERBIA nil nil 53. SINGAPORE nil yes 54. SLOVAKIA yes yes yes nil yes 55. SLOVENIA yes yes yes 56. SPAIN yes yes yes yes 57. SURINAME nil nil 58. SWAZILAND nil nil nil 59. SWEDEN yes nil yes yes 60. SWITZERLAND yes yes yes 61. TAJIKISTAN nil nil 62. THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA nil nil c 63. TURKEY yes yes yes yes yes 64. UKRAINE yes nil yes 65. UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND yes yes yes yes yes d NORTHERN IRELAND 66. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA yes yes yes yes 67. VIET NAM nil nil a Japan provided a paper on its policies on the control of arms export as well as information on SALW procurement through national production. b Moldova also provided annual information on SALW identified a surplus and/or seized and destroyed by the National Army of the Republic of Moldova. c Turkey also provided annual information on SALW identified as surplus and/or seized and destroyed. d The United Kingdom provided a paper on its defense equipment procurement, import and export policies as well as information on SALW destroyed by the Ministry of Defence between 1 January and 31 December 2007.
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