A/RES/76/50
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 December 2021
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 100 (x)
General and complete disarmament: the Arms
Trade Treaty
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 6 December 2021
[on the report of the First Committee (A/76/444, para. 93)]
76/50.
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, 67/234 B of 2 April
2013, 68/31 of 5 December 2013, 69/49 of 2 December 2014, 70/58 of 7 December
2015, 71/50 of 5 December 2016, 72/44 of 4 December 2017, 73/36 of 5 December
2018, 74/49 of 12 December 2019 and 75/64 of 7 December 2020 and its decision
66/518 of 2 December 2011,
Recognizing that disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation are essential
for the maintenance of international peace and security,
Recognizing also the security, social, economic and humanitarian consequences
of the illicit and unregulated trade in conventional arms,
Recognizing further the legitimate political, security, economic and commercial
interests of States in the international trade in conventional arms,
Underlining the urgent need to prevent and eradicate the illicit trade in
conventional arms, including small arms and light weapons, and to prevent their
diversion to the illicit market, or for unauthorized end use or end users, including
through improvements to stockpile management, thereby preventing the exacerbation
of armed violence, the commission of terrorist acts and the violation of international
humanitarian law and international human rights law,
Emphasizing the responsibility of all States, in accordance with their respective
international and regional obligations and commitments, to effect ively regulate the
international trade in conventional arms,
Recalling the contribution made by the Programme of Action to Prevent,
Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its
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