Arms Trade Treaty Provisions
Highlights of the ATT as Adopted by the UN General Assembly
The following are portions of the Arms Trade Treaty, as released by the Final United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, March 28, 2013, and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, April 2, 2013. Preamble The States Parties to this Treaty, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Recalling Article 26 of the Charter of the United Nations which seeks to promote the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion for armaments of the world’s human and economic resources, Underlining the need to prevent and eradicate…
