Transparency in armaments

Recognizes the importance of achieving greater progress in the further development of the UN Register of Conventional Arms in order that it may truly enhance confidence-building and security among States and accelerate efforts towards attainment of the goal of general and complete disarmament, and to that end urges Member States to submit their view to the Secretary-General concerning the following matters with a view to their consideration by the Goup of Governmental Experts, which is to be convened in 2000: (a) the early expansion of the scope of the Register; (b) the elaboration of practical means for the further development of the Register in order to increase transparency related to weapons of mass destruction, in particular nuclear weapons, and to transfers of equipment and technology directly related to the development and manufacture of such weapons.

Adopted 104-46-17, 79th meeting

Adopted at the 79th plenary meeting, 4 Dec. 1998.
In: General and complete disarmament : resolutions / adopted by the General Assembly - A/RES/53/77 - 12 Jan. 1999 - p. 27-28.