United Nations A/60/160 General Assembly Distr.: General 25 July 2005 English Original: English/French/Russian/ Spanish Sixtieth session Item 98 (d) of the provisional agenda* General and complete disarmament: transparency in armaments United Nations Register of Conventional Arms Report of the Secretary-General Summary The present report is the thirteenth consolidated report issued by the Secretary- General since the establishment of the Register.** It contains data and information provided by 90 Governments on exports and imports of major conventional arms covered under the Register for the calendar year 2004. The replies received are contained in sections II. Section III of the present report contains an index of the background information submitted by Governments on military holdings, procurement through national production, international transfers of small arms and light weapons and national policies. Replies received on military holdings and procurement through national production are contained in section IV. Additional information received from Governments on small arms and light weapons and national policies is available for consultation at the Department for Disarmament Affairs of the Secretariat. All relevant information on the Register is available electronically on the Department’s Register web site at http://disarmament2.un.org/cab/register.html. * A/60/150. ** The first to twelfth reports were issued under the 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 and 2 and Add.1 and 2; A/59/193 and Corr.1 and 2 and Add.1 and 2. 05-43830 (E) 270805 *0543830* A/60/160 Contents Paragraphs Page I. Introduction .......................................................... 1–2 3 II. Information received from Governments .................................. 3–4 3 A. Composite table of replies of Governments ...................................... 4 B. Replies received from Governments ............................................ 7 III. Index of background information provided by Governments for the calendar year 2004 ...... 56 IV. Information received from Governments on military holdings and procurement through national production .............................................................. 58 2 A/60/160 I. Introduction 1. The present report is the thirteenth consolidated report on the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms, and is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 58/54 of 8 December 2003. 2. Pursuant to the recommendations of the 2003 Group of Governmental Experts, the Department for Disarmament Affairs engaged in a number of activities to enhance awareness of the Register and to encourage greater participation in it. The Register was discussed in the “African Regional Conference on Transparency”, organized by the Department, through its Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa, which was held in Bamako, Mali, from 26 to 30 July 2004. The Register was also discussed in a regional workshop on the theme “Small arms and light weapons for the South Pacific” organized by the Department through its Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific, which was held in Nadi, Fiji, from 18-20 August 2004, covering the Member States of the Pacific Islands Forum. On 25 April 2005, the Department made a presentation on the Register in a plenary session of the Committee on Hemispheric Security of the Organization of American States held in Washington, D.C. The Register was also the focus of attention at a regional workshop organized by the Department in Nairobi, Kenya, from 31 May to 2 June 2005. The workshop, which was sponsored by the Governments of the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom, covered the Member States from the Horn of Africa and Great Lakes regions and Southern Africa. In September 2004, the Department published an updated version of its information booklet on the Register, which was printed by the Government of the United Kingdom. II. Information received from Governments1 3. Information received from Governments is presented below as follows: a composite table listing all the replies received by the Secretary-General (sect. A) and an index of individual replies of Governments (sect. B). Where appropriate, the relevant parts of notes verbales are reproduced. 4. The composite table is provided for ease of reference. As regards the information contained in the table, 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 composite table 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 verbales 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 verbales containing “nil” or blank reports are listed in the composite table only. __________________ 1 Documents have been reproduced as received; the designations employed do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory or area, or of its authorities. 3 A/60/160 A. Composite table of replies of Governments2 Explanation Data on Data on submitted in Background State exports imports note verbale information Albania nil nil no Andorra nil nil no Armenia nil yes yes Australia yes yes yes Austria yes yes yes Azerbaijan nil nil no Bangladesh nil yes no Belarus yes nil no Belgium nil nil yes Belize nil nil no Bolivia nil nil no Bosnia and Herzegovina nil nil no Brazil nil yes yes Bulgaria yes yes yes Burundi nil nil no Cambodia nil nil no Canada yes yes yes Chile nil yes no Comoros nil nil no Costa Rica nil nil no Croatia nil nil yes Czech Republic yes yes no Denmark nil yes yes Finland yes yes yes France yes nil yes Gabon nil yes no Gambia nil nil no Georgia nil yes no Germany yes yes yes Greece yes yes yes Guatemala nil nil no Guyana nil nil no Hungary yes nil yes Iceland nil nil no Indonesia nil nil no Ireland nil yes yes Italy yes nil no Jamaica nil nil no Japan nil nil yes __________________ 2 Cook Islands and Niue submitted “nil” reports. 4 A/60/160 Explanation Data on Data on submitted in Background State exports imports note verbale information Jordan yes yes no Kazakhstan nil yes no Latvia nil nil no Lesotho nil nil no Liechtenstein nil nil no Lithuania nil yes yes Malta nil nil no Marshall Islands nil nil no Monaco nil nil no Mongolia nil nil no Mozambique nil nil no Namibia nil nil no Netherlands yes yes yes New Zealand nil yes yes Norway nil nil no Pakistan nil yes no Palau nil nil no Paraguay nil nil no Peru nil yes no Poland yes yes yes Portugal nil yes no Republic of Korea nil yes no Romania yes yes no Russian Federation yes nil no Saint Vincent and the nil nil no Grenadines Samoa nil nil no San Marino nil nil no Serbia and Montenegro yes nil yes Seychelles nil nil no Singapore yes yes no Slovakia yes yes yes Slovenia nil nil no Solomon Islands nil nil no South Africa yes yes yes Spain yes yes yes Sweden yes nil yes Switzerland yes yes yes Thailand nil yes no Tonga nil nil no Trinidad and Tobago nil nil no Turkey yes yes yes Turkmenistan nil nil no 5 A/60/160 Explanation Data on Data on submitted in Background State exports imports note verbale information Tuvalu nil nil no Ukraine yes nil no United Kingdom yes yes yes United Republic of Tanzania nil nil no United States of America yes yes yes Viet Nam nil yes no Zambia nil nil no 6 A/60/160 B. Replies received from Governments Armenia Reporting country: Armenia Original language: English Calendar year: 2004 Background information provided: yes Date of submission: 29 June 2005 IMPORTS A B CDE Remarks Category Exporter Number of State of Intermediate Description of Comments on the (I-VII) State(s) items origin location item transfer (if not (if any) exporter) IV. Combat Slovakia 10 Russian SU-25 Aircraft Federation 7 A/60/160 Australia Reporting country: Australia Original language: English Calendar year: 2004 Background information provided: yes Date of submission: 13 May 2005 IMPORTS ABCDE Remarks Category Exporter Number State of Intermediate Description Comments on (I-VII) State(s) of items origin location of item the transfer (if not (if any) exporter) II. Armoured Canada 86 58 x ASLAV Hulls imported combat T1 from Canada vehicles 18 x ASLAV with turrets for T2 Type 1 manufactured in Adelaide. VII. Missiles USA Classified AMRAAM Missile numbers and Missile UK Classified AIM-120 classified for all Launchers USA Classified ASRAAM types. Sweden Classified AIM-132 AGM 142E AGM 119 National criteria on transfers: (iii) Transfer of title.