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Arms Trade Treaty

  • Delegates Adopt ATT Rules of Procedure
    Arms Control Today
    March 2, 2012

    Delegates from UN member states reached a last-minute agreement on rules of procedure for negotiation of an arms trade treaty (ATT) on Feb. 17, the last day of the week-long fourth and final session of the ATT Preparatory Committee in New York. Participants agreed that consensus was necessary for adoption of substantive matters and the final treaty text.
  • Letter to the Editor: Too ‘Lite’ on the Arms Trade Treaty
    Arms Control Today
    March 2, 2012

    In “How to Reach Consensus on an Arms Trade Treaty” (January/February 2012), Andrew Wood rightly states that industry would have a major role in implementing an eventual arms trade treaty (ATT) and highlights the value of its engagement as the international community meets to finalize treaty text this summer. He also forthrightly identifies a number of sticking points in the negotiations and properly seeks to dismiss the distraction caused by members of the firearms industry and sport shooter community.
  • How to Reach Consensus on an Arms Trade Treaty
    Arms Control Today
    January 12, 2012

    Since 2006, government representatives to the United Nations have been engaged in progressively wider and deeper discussions toward the negotiation of a treaty to regulate the trade in conventional arms. In 2009 the UN General Assembly decided to convene a conference that established a timetable for crafting an arms trade treaty (ATT), which is to be “a legally binding instrument on the highest-possible common international standards for the transfer of conventional arms.”
  • Arms Trader Viktor Bout Convicted
    Arms Control Today
    December 2, 2011

    In the high-profile criminal case against a man who has become a symbol of the illicit arms trade, a federal jury in New York City on Nov. 3 found arms dealer Viktor Bout guilty on all four charges brought against him.
  • Russian Arms Smuggler Faces Jury
    Arms Control Today
    November 2, 2011

    More than three years after his arrest, the trial of suspected arms trafficker Viktor Bout began Oct. 11 at a U.S. federal court in New York.
  • The Arms Trade Treaty At a Glance
    Fact Sheets & Briefs
    October 11, 2011

    October 2011
  • P5 Commits to Arms Trade Negotiations
    Arms Control Today
    August 30, 2011

    The five permanent members of the UN Security Council in July endorsed the negotiation process for an arms trade treaty as the diplomat chairing the treaty talks circulated an unofficial model text of the pact.
  • America and the Arms Trade Treaty
    Arms Control Today
    August 30, 2011

    Each year, thousands of civilians around the world are slaughtered by weapons sold to unscrupulous regimes and transferred to criminals and illegal militias. The enormous human toll of this cycle of violence undermines economic development and political stability in fragile regions.
  • Strengthening U.S. National Security Through the Global Arms Trade Treaty
    Issue Briefs
    August 12, 2011

    Volume 2, Issue 11, August 12, 2011

    Each year, thousands of civilians around the world are slaughtered by weapons sold to unscrupulous regimes and  transferred to illegal militias and criminals. In addition to the human toll, this cycle of violence undermines economic development and political stability in often fragile regions.
  • 1991 Arms Trade Control Efforts and Their Echoes
    Arms Control Today
    July 7, 2011

    In 1991, in the wake of the Persian Gulf War, the international community sought to tighten controls on the conventional arms trade. Today, as Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi uses imported military equipment against opponents of his regime, the 1991 efforts and their mixed results deserve renewed attention.