A/RES/73/36
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 December 2018
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 101 (bb)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 5 December 2018
[on the report of the First Committee (A/73/510 and A/73/510/Corr.1)]
73/36.
The Arms Trade Treaty
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 61/89 of 6 December 2006, 63/240 of 24 December
2008, 64/48 of 2 December 2009, 67/234 A of 24 December 2012, 67/234 B of
2 April 2013, 68/31 of 5 December 2013, 69/49 of 2 December 2014, 70/58 of
7 December 2015, 71/50 of 5 December 2016 and 72/44 of 4 December 2017 and its
decision 66/518 of 2 December 2011,
Recognizing that disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation are essential
for the maintenance of international peace and security,
Recognizing also the security, social, economic and humanitarian consequences
of the illicit and unregulated trade in conventional arms,
Recognizing further the legitimate political, security, economic and commercial
interests of States in the international trade in conventional arms,
Underlining the need to prevent and eradicate the illicit trade in conventional
arms and to prevent their diversion to the illicit market, or for unauthorized end use
and end users, including the commission of terrorist acts,
Recalling the contribution made by the Programme of Action to Prevent,
Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its
Aspects, 1 as well as the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking
in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United
Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 2 and the International
Instrument to Enable States to Identify and Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Manner,
Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons, 3
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18-21231 (E)
Report of the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in
All Its Aspects, New York, 9–20 July 2001 (A/CONF.192/15), chap. IV, para. 24.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2326, No. 39574.
See decision 60/519 and A/60/88 and A/60/88/Corr.2, annex.
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