The United Nations General Assembly adopted today, by an overwhelming majority, a Resolution establishing the Final United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), to be held in New York from 18th to 28th March 2013.
The Conference will seek to negotiate the highest possible common international standards for the import, export and transfer of the complete range of conventional weapons. The Conference will be an historical opportunity to achieve a wide-ranging Treaty to address effectively the illegal flow of arms throughout the world.
The Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the seven co-author states of the General Assembly Resolution (Argentina, Australia, Costa Rica, Finland, Japan, Kenya and the United Kingdom) on the ATT have issued the following joint declaration.
