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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/43
23 December 1999
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 64 (b)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the First Committee (A/54/551)]
54/43.
Objective information on military matters, including transparency of
military expenditures
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 53/72 of 4 December 1998 on objective information on military matters,
including transparency of military expenditures,
Also recalling its resolution 35/142 B of 12 December 1980, which introduced the United Nations
system for the standardized reporting of military expenditures, and its resolutions 48/62 of 16 December
1993, 49/66 of 15 December 1994, 51/38 of 10 December 1996 and 52/32 of 9 December 1997, calling
upon all Member States to participate in it, and its resolution 47/54 B of 9 December 1992, endorsing the
guidelines and recommendations for objective information on military matters and inviting Member States
to provide the Secretary-General with relevant information regarding their implementation,
Noting that since then national reports on military expenditures and on the guidelines and
recommendations for objective information on military matters have been submitted by a number of
Member States belonging to different geographic regions,
Welcoming the report of the Secretary-General1 on ways and means to implement the guidelines and
recommendations for objective information on military matters, including, in particular, how to strengthen
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