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Conventional Arms Control Efforts

Small Arms and Light Weapons
This section covers proposals and negotiations for placing limits on holdings, production, acquisition, or transfers of small arms and light weapons.
  • UN Programme of Action
  • Other Small Arms Efforts
  • Selected Regional Efforts

Arms Trade
This section covers efforts to constrain import, export, transit and transshipment, and brokerage of all conventional arms, for military or domestic use, including heavy weapon systems, small arms and light weapons, direct and dual-use technology, and equipment related to these systems, and munitions.

Cluster Munitions
This section covers discussions of cluster munitions within the framework of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, the separate process to negotiate a ban on cluster munitions that began in Oslo, Norway in 2006, and chronicles issues related to the use, development, stockpiling, and trade of cluster munitions world wide.