SIPRI expert presents new arms transfers data at ATT negotiations

On 18 March Paul Holtom, Director of the SIPRI Arms Transfers Programme, presented the latest SIPRI data on international arms transfers at a side event to the final UN Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in New York.

The seminar, entitled Transfers, Transparency and the ATT, was co-organized by the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs, the German and Swedish permanent missions to the UN, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and SIPRI.  

The event highlighted how transparency in the international arms trade can help states fulfil the goals and objectives of the ATT and deliver a treaty that can make a meaningful impact on peace, security and stability. The UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Angela Kane, gave opening remarks and the seminar was chaired by the head of the Swedish delegation to the ATT conference, Amassador Paul Beijer.

Contact Volker Lehmann, Senior Policy Analyst, FES New York for more information.

Holtom also presented at two other ATT conference side events: on measures that can be taken by importing states to prevent the risk of diversion of conventional arms and ammunition at a meeting entitled Preventing Diversion through the Arms Trade Treaty on 22 March; and on public reporting on international arms transfers at a seminar on 25 March, Visualising the Small Arms Trade: The Need for Transparency in the Arms Trade Treaty.