Forty-ninth session
Agenda items 53 and 64 (f)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 35/142 B of 12 December 1980, which
introduced the United Nations system for the standardized reporting
of military expenditures, and its resolutions 48/62 of 16 December
1993, calling upon all Member States to participate in it, and
47/54 B of 9 December 1992, endorsing the guidelines and recommendations
for objective information on military matters and inviting Member
States to provide relevant information to the Secretary-General
regarding their implementation,
Noting that since then national reports on military expenditures
and on the guidelines and recommendations for objective information
on military matters have been submitted by a number of Member
States belonging to different geographic regions,
Expressing its appreciation to the Secretary-General for
providing Member States with the reports on military expenditures
in standardized form reported by States 1/ and on guidelines and
recommendations for objective information on military matters,
2/
Welcoming the decision of many Member States to exchange
and to publish information annually on their military budgets
and to implement the guidelines and recommendations for objective
information on military matters, as appropriate,
Reaffirming its firm conviction that a better flow of objective
information on military matters can help to relieve international
tension and contribute to the building of confidence among States
and to the conclusion of concrete disarmament agreements,
Convinced that the end of the East-West confrontation and
the resulting improvement of international relations form a sound
basis for promoting further openness and transparency in all military
matters,
Recalling that the guidelines and recommendations for objective
information on military matters recommended certain areas for
further consideration, such as the improvement of the United Nations
system for the standardized reporting of military expenditures,
1. Recommends the guidelines and recommendations for objective
information on military matters to all Member States for implementation,
fully taking into account specific political, military and other
conditions prevailing in a region, on the basis of initiatives
and with the agreement of the States of the region concerned;
2. Calls upon all Member States to report annually, by
30 April, to the Secretary-General, their military expenditures
for the latest fiscal year for which data are available, using,
for the time being, the reporting instrument as recommended in
its resolution 35/142 B;
3. Requests the Secretary-General to circulate annually
the reports on military expenditures, as received from Member
States;
4. Also requests the Secretary-General to seek the views
of Member States on ways and means to implement the guidelines
and recommendations for objective information on military matters,
including, in particular, how to strengthen and broaden participation
in the United Nations system for the standardized reporting of
military expenditures, and to submit a report on the subject to
the General Assembly at its fifty-first session;
5. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its
fifty-first session the item entitled "Objective information
on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures".
90th plenary meeting
15 December 1994
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1/ A/49/190 and Add.1 and 2.
2/ A/49/225.