The united nations register of conventional arms: Increasing transparency for four years

Nonproliferation Review

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 82-103

  Keith, Tracy M ^a  

^a Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)   (United States)

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EID: 85010525616     PISSN: 10736700     EISSN: 17461766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10736709708436669     Document Type: Article

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1. This article contains information from United Nations documents A/51/300, and A/51/300 add. 1-3.
2. The Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty of 1990 set limits on conventional weapons essential for launching surprise attacks and initiating large- scale offensive operations in the 30 participating states parties. The reduction of equipment in excess ofthe Treaty limits has led to transfers of older equipment, or “cascading,” to countries outside of the Treaty zone.
3. Ian Athony, Peiter D. Wezeman, and Siemon T. Wezeman, “The Trade in Major Conventional Weapons,” in SIPRI Yearbook 1996: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), p. 465.
4. Ian Athony, Peiter D. Wezeman, and Siemon T. Wezeman, “The Trade in Major Conventional Weapons,” in SIPRI Yearbook 1996: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, pp. 466-467.
5. Taiwan is not a U.N. member state.
6. Participation in the Register, itself, is voluntary.
7. For additional detail on this type of expansion of the Register see: Malcolm Chalmers and Owen Green, “Expanding the Register to include procurement through national production and military holdings,” in Malcolm Chalmers, Owen Greene, Edward J. Laurance, and Herbert Wulf, eds., Developing the UN Register of Conventional Arms (West Yoikshire, United Kingdom: University of Bradford, 1994), pp. 153-175.
8. The countries which are included in each ofthe geographic regions include: Africa: Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Gabon, Ghana, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe; Asia and Oceania: Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, China, DPRK, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, New Zealand, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Viet Nam; CIS and EE: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic (from 1993), Czechoslovakia (in 1992), Estonia, Hungary, Kazakstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Uzbekistan; Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela; Middle East: Bahrain, Cyprus, Dubai, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen; North America: Canada, United States of America; and Western Europe: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom. Please note that countries which have never been listed as’ importing or exporting weapons to the Register are not listed in the geographical region listing.
9. Includes weapons transferred from the United States to Taiwan.
10. Includes weapons transferred to recipients which are not states, such as U.N. Peacekeeping Missions.
11. Calculation methodology is described in the Appendix.
12. The declared import of massive numbers of LCAs by Malaysia in 1994 has not been included in the data, since this import was presumably ammunition as opposed to artillery systems and therefore outside of the category.
13. Calculation methodology is described in the Appendix.
14. Information taken from exporters’ submissions only.
15. Information taken from exporters’ submissions only.
16. Calculation methodology is described in the Appendix.
17. “Turks Hope Washington Will Now Push for a Cyprus Accord,” The New York Times, December 17, 1996, p. A6.
18. The Philippines reported receiving 10,680 “RX MTR HK 40/56” missiles from the United States in 1994. Brazil declared the export of 50,328 “SS30, SS40, SS50 rockets for ASTROS IT to Saudi Arabia in 1992.