A/RES/74/49
The Arms Trade Treaty
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
Highlighting the relevance of the Arms Trade Treaty, 4 including its links and
synergies with other relevant instruments on conventional arms, to efforts to meet
Sustainable Development Goal 16 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 5
and specifically target 16.4, which aims at significantly reducing illicit arms flows
by 2030,
Recalling the Secretary-General’s disarmament agenda, Securing Our Common
Future: An Agenda for Disarmament, in particular the section of the agenda entitled
“Disarmament that saves lives”,
Recognizing the negative impact of the illicit and unregulated trade in
conventional arms and related ammunition on the lives of women, men, girls and
boys, and that the Arms Trade Treaty was the first international agreement to identify
and call upon States to address the link between conventional arms transf ers and the
risk of serious acts of gender-based violence and serious acts of violence against
women and children,
Recognizing also the important role that civil society organizations, including
non-governmental organizations, and industry play, by raising awareness, in efforts
to prevent and eradicate the illicit and unregulated trade in conventional arms,
including in preventing their diversion, and in supporting the implementation of the
Treaty,
Recalling the adoption by the General Assembly and the entry into force of the
Treaty on 2 April 2013 and 24 December 2014, respectively, and noting that the Treaty
remains open for accession by any State that has not signed it,
Welcoming the latest ratifications of and accessions to the Treaty, bearing in
mind that the universalization of the Treaty is essential to achieving its object and
purpose,
Noting the efforts by the States parties to the Treaty to continue to explore ways
and means to enhance national implementation of the Treaty through the working
group on effective treaty implementation and the voluntary trust fund for the
implementation of the Treaty,
1.
Welcomes the decisions taken at the Fifth Conference of States Parties to
the Arms Trade Treaty, held in Geneva from 26 to 30 August 2019, and not es that the
Sixth Conference of States Parties will be held in Geneva from 17 to 21 August 2020;
2.
Also welcomes the progress made by the standing working groups on
effective treaty implementation, on transparency and reporting, and on
universalization in advancing the object and purpose of the Arms Trade Treaty; 4
3.
Recognizes that the consolidation of the institutional structure of the
Treaty provides a framework for supporting further work under the Treaty, in
particular its effective implementation, in this regard welcomes the efforts undertaken
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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.
See resolution 67/234 B.
Resolution 70/1.
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