A/RES/68/31 GA

United Nations A/RES/68/31 General Assembly Distr.: General 9 December 2013 Sixty-eighth session Agenda item 99 (dd) 13-44131 *1344131* Please recycle Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 5 December 2013 [on the report of the First Committee (A/68/411)] 68/31. The Arms Trade Treaty The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 61/89 of 6 December 2006, 63/240 of 24 December 2008, 64/48 of 2 December 2009, 67/234 A of 24 December 2012 and 67/234 B of 2 April 2013, and its decision 66/518 of 2 December 2011, 1. Welcomes the adoption of the Arms Trade Treaty on 2 April 2013;1 2. Notes that the Treaty was opened for signature at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 3 June 2013, will remain open for signature thereafter until its entry into force and, following its entry into force, will be open for accession for any State that has not signed the Treaty; 3. Calls upon all States that have not yet done so to sign and, thereafter, according to their respective constitutional processes, ratify, accept or approve the Treaty at the earliest possible date; 4. Calls upon those States in a position to do so to provide assistance, including legal or legislative assistance, institutional capacity-building and technical, material or financial assistance, to requesting States that intend to become parties to the Treaty, in order to facilitate its early entry into force; 5. Requests the Secretary-General, as depositary of the Treaty, to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-ninth session on the status of signature and ratification, acceptance or approval of the Treaty; 6. Decides to remain seized of the matter. 60th plenary meeting 5 December 2013 _______________ 1 See resolution 67/234 B.

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