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Subject: Small arms trade with ‘Arab Spring’ states persists, despite risks
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*Small arms trade with ‘Arab Spring’ states persists,
despite risks*
Several findings from the *Small Arms Survey 2015: Weapons and the
World, *launched
in June in New York, were presented today at the Final Preparatory Meeting
towards the First Conference of States Parties of the Arms Trade Treaty
(ATT), being held in Geneva this week.
The Small Arms Survey offers a range of resources, including its annual
flagship publication, to inform international discussions and processes
concerning the small arms trade.
A multimedia Web Documentary on* Small Arms Survey 2015: Weapons and the
World* was also released today. The Web Doc uses a interactive and
navigable interface to present key chapter findings, accompanied by audio
overviews narrated by members of the Survey research team.
The *Small Arms Survey 2015 *finds that armed violence and political
instability associated with the ‘Arab Spring’ have not led to significant
changes in the policies or practices of countries exporting small arms and
light weapons to the governments of Egypt, Libya, or Syria since 2011*. *The
study also reveals that the emergence of Islamic State has convinced many
exporters to provide small arms to non-state armed groups in the region,
despite heightened risks of weapons diversion and misuse.
The 2015 *Survey* also finds that insurgents in northern Mali are better
armed than they were a decade ago, including with larger-calibre weapons.
Jihadist groups have obtained man-portable air defence systems, which pose
a serious and direct threat to civilian and military aircraft. Although
they appear to have obtained most of their weapons from Malian army
stockpiles, they have also obtained larger-calibre weapons from
post-Qaddafi Libyan stockpiles.
Among the *Small Arms Survey 2015 *findings:
- In 2012, the top exporters of small arms and light weapons (those with
annual exports of at least USD 100 million), according to available customs
data from the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN
Comtrade), were (in descending order) the United States, Italy, Germany,
Brazil, Austria, South Korea, the Russian Federation, China, Belgium, the
Czech Republic, Turkey, Norway, and Japan. The top importers (those with
annual imports of at least USD 100 million) were (in descending order) the
United States, Canada, Germany, Australia, France, the United Kingdom,
Thailand, and Indonesia.
- Ammunition stockpile management remains weak in much of South-east
Europe, where some 10 per cent of all globally recorded incidents of
unplanned explosions at munitions sites have occurred.
- The use of ‘floating armouries’ has become commonplace among maritime
private security transiting the Indian Ocean, but there are no
international standards for floating armoury security or storage, and
armoury practices vary significantly, with commercial pressures creating
incentives for unsafe practices.
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