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Introductory Remarks by Jesse Clarke

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Jesse Clarke*
Affiliation:
United Kingdom Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Abstract

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Type
Irresponsible Arms Trade and the Arms Trade Treaty
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2009

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References

1 See GA Res. S-10/2 (June 30, 1978), Tenth Special Session (First Special Session on Disarmament), Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly, available at <http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/resguide/specda#specsessda>.

2 See Report of the Disarmament Commission, U.N. Doc. A/51/42 (May 22,1996), available at <http://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/Undoc/Gen/N96/127/60/pdf/N9612760.pdf>.

3 Sarah Parker, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), Analysis of States ‘ Views on an Arms Trade Treaty, Oct. 2007, available at <www.unidir.org/pdf/activites/pdf2-act349.pdf>; see also Sarah Parker, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), Implications of States ‘ Views on an Arms Trade Treaty, Jan. 2008, available at <www.unidir.org/pdf/activites/pdf3-act349.pdf>.

4 Report of the Group of Governmental Experts to Examine the Feasibility, Scope and Draft Parameters for a Comprehensive, Legally Binding Instrument Establishing Common International Standards for the Import, Export and Transfer of Conventional Arms, U.N. Doc. A/63/334 (Aug. 26, 2008), available at <http://daccess-ods.un.org/Tmp/5210452.html>.

5 Zimbabwe voted against the Resolution in Committee on 31 October 2008 but in favor of the Resolution in the General Assembly on 24 December 2008.

6 United States Explanation of Vote, Oct. 31, 2008, available at <http://geneva.usmission.gov/Cd/updates/UnlstCommittee/1031L39.html>.