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Asia and Oceania

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Asia and Oceania

Caucasus

Armenia

Authorised Trade
2007-07-26 Armenian defence ministry denies buying weapons from Albania.txt

Azerbaijan

Miscellaneous
2005-02-14 NATO project to destroy UXO.txt

<Caucasus, general>

Laws and Policies
2009-01-14 Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia- Security Issues and Implications for US Interests.pdf

Georgia

Arms Trade Data and Methodology
2007-11-06 SOME FACTS AND FIGURES ABOUT THE ARMS TRADE IN THE CAUCASUS.txt
Authorised Trade
2007-09-14 Georgian military experts dismiss weapons reportedly bought in Bosnia as junk.txt
Miscellaneous
2006-06-05 Georgia hosts workshop on small arms, light weapons control for international parliame_0.txt
2002-04-29 Georgia Train And Equip Program Begins.txt
2000-06-05 Small arms roundtable is held in Tbilisi.txt

Central Asia

Afghanistan

Authorised Trade
2002 Afghani Arms Imports.doc
Black Market
2007-01-17 December 2006 Multiple weapon caches seized.txt
2006-04-18 Former gunmen surrender arms, return to civilian life.txt
2006-04-15 Afghan coalition forces kill insurgents, find weapons.txt
2006-03-06 Afghanistan - former militia leaders surrender arms.txt
2005-09-26 New guns, new drive for Taliban.txt
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Laws and Policies
2006-07-26 Former militia commanders disarm in northern province.txt
Miscellaneous
Undated The New Business of War Small.pdf
Undated Ordering the “Crush Zone”.pdf
2001-10-08 The aftermath of 11 September.pdf

Kyrgyzstan

Black Market
2006-06-08 Small arms race.txt

Tajikistan

Black Market
2007-10-18 Large arms cache uncovered near Tajik capital.txt
2005-07-18 Opposition trial begins in Tajikistan.txt
2004-02-27 New Report Shoots Down Assumptions About Arms Proliferation.txt
1999-11-12 The Problem of Small Arms and Light Weapons in Tajikistan.txt
Miscellaneous
2007-02-21 Countering the threat of excess small arms and ammunition in Tajikistan.txt
2006-06-22 OSCE centre, Tajik Interior Ministry open facility to store and destroy small arms and_0.txt

Turkmenistan

Authorised Trade
1999 UK Small Arms Exports to Turkmenistan.htm

Uzbekistan

Miscellaneous
2005-11-14 EU imposes visa ban, arms embargo on Uzbekistan.txt

East Asia

China

Authorised Trade
2006-06 Sustaining conflict and human rights abuses The flow of arms accelerates.pdf
2006-06 Sustaining conflict & human rights abuses, the flow of arms accelerates.pdf
2006 Africa and China relations.pdf
2005-10-28 Has China the Resources to Control its Exports.doc
2003 CHINA Arms Exports.doc
2000-08 CHINESE ARMS EXPORTSPOLICY, PLAYERS, AND PROCESS.pdf
Miscellaneous
2005-04-20 Statement by Vice Foreign Minister at opeining of UN Workshop on SALW.txt
2000-01-07 China-Taiwan Military Balance.pdf

Japan

Authorised Trade
Undated Japanese Trade figures.zip
Undated Japanese customs declarations.doc
Black Market
2003-07-03 PRESS CONFERENCE ON SMALL ARMS MEETING.txt
Miscellaneous
2004 Crimes in Japan 2004.pdf
2002-02-05 MOFA Releases Summary of Tokyo Meeting on UN Small Arms Conference.txt

South Korea

Authorised Trade
South Korea arms exports 1990-1997.htm
8index.htm
Miscellaneous
Undated DPRK Special Committee Issues White Paper on Crimes Committed by US Soldiers.txt

Middle East

Cyprus

Authorised Trade
1999 State Department trade statistics.pdf
Laws and Policies
Background on the article.doc
Miscellaneous
U.N. Destroys Weapons In Goodwill Gesture.txt
Cyprus UN Conference.htm
Cyprus PIO News Update in English, 01-07-16.mht
19.mht

<Middle East, general>

Authorised Trade
2001-09-21 US Sales to Middle East.txt
Background
2008-06-26 Kurdish Landmine Plight Across and Along the Borders.txt
Black Market
2008-12-01 Disrupting the illicit small arms trafficking in the Middle East.pdf
2008-12-00 Disrupting Illicit Small Arms Trafficking in the Middle East.pdf
Laws and Policies
2002 Small Arms and Light Weapons in the Arab Region.pdf

Iran

Authorised Trade
2006-01-11 Governments support firms accused of Iran arms sales.pdf
2003 Iran Arms Exports Imports.doc

Iraq

Armed Groups and Small Arms
2006-04-26 Iraq’s Evolving Insurgency and the Risk of CivilWar.pdf
2006-04-19 American Strategic, Tactical, and Other Mistakes in Iraq A Litany of Errors.pdf
2006-02-03 The Nature of Attacks and Patterns.pdf
2005-12-09 Iraq’s Evolving Insurgency.pdf
2005-11-18 Iraq and Foreign Volunteers.pdf
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Black Market
2007-11-12 (Iraq) Happiness Is a Warm, Iraqi Gun.txt
2002-10-31 Iraq Preparations and the Yugoimport-Orao-Iraq Arms smuggling Controversy.rtf
Miscellaneous
2003 The Role of Small Arms in Iraq 2003-2004.pdf

Israel

Authorised Trade
Israel 1988 2001.htm
2003-02-16 Forsvarsmateriell fra Israel.mht
2002 Israel Arms Exports Imports.doc
Black Market
2005-08-04 Israeli Arab smuggled 150 rifles from Sinai to PA.txt
2002 The Influence Peddlers .txt
Laws and Policies
2007-11-12 Multi-Year Plan to Strengthen IDF Conventional Capabilities.txt
Miscellaneous
2002-05-06 U.S. Arms Transfers and Security Assistance to Israel.txt
2001-11-27 Local Industry Accord on Rules for Procurement.txt

Lebanon

Authorised Trade
     2002 Trade Statistics 9302.mht
     2002 National Tariffs2.mht
     2002 National Tariffs.mht
     2001.mht
     2001 Trade Statistics 930630 - 2001.mht
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Miscellaneous
2006-03-01 Young Arabs want stricter gun control, study finds.txt

Palestine

Black Market
2007-10-16 Uncertainty Fuels Jump In West Bank Gun Prices.txt
2007-02-20 Church and guns in Gaza.txt
2004-10-22 Human Rights Watch (HRW) Report - Razing Rafah.txt

Qatar

Authorised Trade
Qatar Customs - Re-Exports 1998.mht
Qatar Customs - Imports 1998.mht
Qatar Customs - Exports 1998.mht
1997 imports.mht
1997 exports.mht
1997 exports true.mht
1996 reexports.mht
1996 imports.mht
1996 exports.mht

Saudi Arabia

Authorised Trade
2003 Saudi Arms Exports Imports.doc

Turkey

Miscellaneous
2004-04-15 Regional conference on arms proliferation underway.txt

United Arab Emirates

Miscellaneous
2007-11-12 Russian Aerospace Industry Presented at Dubai.txt

Yemen

Authorised Trade
2004-11-23 Russian Arms Exports to Yemen to Exceed $100M in 2004 Official.doc
Laws and Policies
2000-03-09 Yemen laws.pdf

Oceania

Australia

Authorised Trade
Undated Table 9 - Exports of Dual-Use Goods by Destination.pdf
Undated Table 8 - Defence and Related Goods, Shipment Value Statistics.pdf
Undated Table 6 - Exports of Defence and Related Goods to Other Destinations.pdf
Undated Table 4 - Exports of Defence and Related Goods to Europe.pdf
Undated Table 3 - Exports of Defence and Related Goods to ASEAN.pdf
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Black Market
1999-02-01 International traffic in small arms an Australian perspective.pdf
Crime and Mortality
2006-02-00 Firearms Theft in Australia A Six Month Exploratory Analysis.pdf
2005-05-01 Firearms and Violent Crime in New South Wales.pdf
2003-11-01 Firearm Related Deaths in Australia, 1991-2001.pdf
2000-05-01 The Licensing and Registration Satus of Firearms Used in Homicide.pdf
Export Reports
2005- ArmsExportsAustralia2002-04.pdf
2003-02 Annual Report 2001-02.pdf
2002-03 Defence annual report.pdf
2001-05 Annual Report 1999-00.pdf
2000-08 Register of Surveys - Australian Defence Exports Survey.mht
2000-03 ANNUAL REPORT Exports of Defence 1998-99.pdf
1999-06 ANNUAL REPORT EXPORTS OF DEFENCE 1997-98.pdf
1999 Australia EXPORTS OF DEFENCE AND STRATEGIC GOODS.pdf
1999 Annual Report EXPORTS OF DEFENCE.pdf
1996-11 PART 1 - MUNITIONS LIST.pdf
1996-11 DEFENCE AND STRATEGIC GOODS index of controlled items.pdf
Laws and Policies
2007-11-09 Gun ban was a godsend for Australia.txt
2004-02-01 Firearms Restrictions Recent Developments.pdf
2001-04-23 Greens call for handgun ban.txt
2000-05-00 The licensing and registration status of firearms used in homicide.pdf
1999-07-23 Australia laws.pdf
1999-03-01 EVALUATION OF THE INTRODUCTION OF TASMANIAN.pdf

Solomon Islands

Arms and Peacebuilding
2001-05-09 Working Paper 01-5 Solomon islands.mht

South Asia

Bangladesh

Armed Violence and Development
Undated Kafi_Arms Availability and Poverty Reduction.ppt
Undated IPCS - Non - Traditional Security Issues.url
Undated FAO Country Profiles and Mapping Information System - Bangladesh.url
2005-02-25 India takes its arms beefs to the UN.txt
2004-04-17 Bangladesh turning into another Afghanistan.txt
2004-01-09 Bangladesh - Overview from Safer-net.doc
2003-08-18 Bogra Ammo Haul and Cross-Border Links of Northeast Terrorists.txt
2003-06-28 SALW and lawlessness in Bangladesh.txt
2003-05-06 Bangladesh, terrorists, gun runners and pirates.txt
2003-05-01 BANGLADESH Operation Clean Heart.url
2003-01-18 Proliferation of SALW in South Asia and Human Security.txt
Laws and Policies
1999 Bangladesh laws.pdf
1992-11-06 Suppression of Terrorist Offences Acts 1992 and 1994.doc
1878 Bangladesh THE ARMS ACT 1878.doc
Miscellaneous
Undated Website UNDP in Bangladesh.url
Undated Website South Asia Analysis Group.url
Undated RCSS Policy Studies 7.doc
Undated Bangladesh Government Official Web Page ..url
2005-02-28 Bangladesh USA State Dept Report on HR.doc
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<South Asia, general>

Miscellaneous
1998-09 South Asia SALW.pdf

India

Authorised Trade
Undated Website Ministry of Defence, Govt of India.mht
Laws and Policies
Undated India laws.pdf
2008-03-21 India - Strategies for National Regulation of SALW.ppt
2004-03-22 Does a legal firearm give licence to kill.doc
Miscellaneous
2007-11-13 (India) Rao Inderjit Encourages Private Sector to Invest In Defence Industry.txt
Production
Undated Website Report on armament industry India.mht

Nepal

Armed Groups and Small Arms
Undated Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) – CPN (M).pdf
2005-03 Impact of Conflict on Security.pdf
2005-01-28 Maoist Insurgency in Nepal An Overview.pdf
2003-12 INSURGENCY IN NEPAL.pdf
2002-01 Children Affected by Armed Conflict in South Asia.pdf
Armed Violence and Development
2005 HRW Nepal Newsletter.txt
2004-05-31 Nepal children in Maoist ranks.txt
2003-08-26 Nepal - Overview from Safer-net.doc
2003-08-17 Killing with impunity.txt
Authorised Trade
Undated Exports of small arms and light weapons to Nepal.doc
2005-06-14 West flouting rules with Nepal arms sales - Amnesty.html
2003 Nepal Arms Imports.doc
Miscellaneous
2004-07-01 Shantika Pahalharu Newsletter.pdf

Pakistan

Authorised Trade
2003 Arms Exports Imports.doc
Laws and Policies
2000-07-11 Pakistan laws.pdf
Production
Undated POF maintains NATO standards.txt

Sri Lanka

Armed Groups and Small Arms
Undated Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).pdf
2008-03-01 Trap Guns In Sri Lanka.pdf
2007-09-12 Army uncovers a huge cache of arms.txt
2004 Urban Battle Fields.pdf
Arms and Peacebuilding
Undated Trapped in the Peace Process.pdf
2003-10 In the Shadow of a Cease-fire.pdf
Laws and Policies
2006-05 Sri Lanka SALW report.pdf

South East Asia

ASEAN

Black Market
2007-05 Southeast Asian Leaders Seek To Implement U.N. Plan.txt
Laws and Policies
Undated Southeast Asian Leaders Seek To Implement U.N. Plan.txt
Miscellaneous
2001-08-16 ASEAN members arming themselves for self-defence.txt
2001-04 Reforming security sectors.pdf

Brunei

Laws and Policies
2000-08-29 Brunei laws.pdf

Burma

Laws and Policies
2003-12 Whose Security Counts.pdf

Cambodia

Arms and Peacebuilding
2003-04-29 Small Arms in Post Conflict Situations.doc

East Timor

Miscellaneous
Undated Securing Haiti’s Transition.pdf
2003 The Democratic Republic of Timor.pdf

<South East Asia, general>

Miscellaneous
2001-07 Legal controls on SALW in South East Asia.pdf

Indonesia

Arms and Peacebuilding
Undated Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration in Aceh.pdf
2007-03 Cranfield CSSM Case Study Series.pdf
2006-12 Indonesia - BRIEF - The Aceh Peace Agreement How Far Have We Come.mht
2006-03-29 Aceh Now for the Hard Part.pdf
2006-03 One year in Aceh and Nias.pdf
2006 PROGRESS TOWARDS SALW.pdf
2005-12-13 Aceh So Far, So Good.pdf
2005-10 Post Tsunami Reconstruction and Peace Building in Aceh.pdf
2005-08 Conflict and Recovery in Aceh An Assessment of Conflict Dynamics and Options.pdf
Authorised Trade
2003 Indonesia Arms Imports.doc

Malaysia

Authorised Trade
2003 Malaysia Arms Exports Imports.doc

Philippines

Authorised Trade
2003 Philippines Arms Exports Imports.doc

Singapore

Authorised Trade
2007-10-23 Singapore's arms sales to Myanmar not substantial.txt
2007-10-22 Singapore to Buy 12 More Boeing Fighter Jets.txt
Laws and Policies
Undated Singapore laws.pdf

Thailand

Authorised Trade
2005-01 Thailand Customs Import Statistics.pdf
Laws and Policies
Undated Thailand laws general firearms registration.pdf
1981 Thailand laws.pdf
1977 Thailand laws.pdf
1953 Thailand laws.pdf
1947 Thailand laws.pdf


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