Calls upon all Member States to exercise due restraint in exports and imports of conventional arms; requests the Secretary-General to establish and maintain at UN Headquarters in New York a universal and non discriminatory Register of Conventional Arms; calls upon all Member States to provide annually for the Register data on imports and exports of arms; decides to keep the scope of and the participation in the Register under review, and, to this end: (a) invites Member States to provide the Security Council with their views, not later than 30 Apr. 1994, on: (i) the operation of the register during its first 2 years; (ii) the addition of further categories of equipment and the elaboration of the Register to include military holdings and procurement through national production; (b) requests the Secretary-General, with the assistance of a group of governmental experts convened in 1994 on the basis of equitable geographical representation, to prepare a report on the continuing operation of the Register and its further development for submission to the General Assembly with a view to a decision at its 49th session; requests the Conference on Disarmament to address the problems of openness and transparency related to the transfer of high technology with military applications and weapons of mass destruction in accordance with existing legal instruments.

Adopted 150-0-2, 66th meeting

Adopted at the 65th and 66th plenary meetings, 6 and 9 Dec. 1991.