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Contents

Summary 1

I. Introduction 1

II. The establishment and working of UNROCA 2

III. Reporting to UNROCA by South East Asian states, 1992-2022 11

IV. The benefits of reporting to UNROCA for South East Asian states 17

V. Conclusions 18

Abbreviations 23

Table 1. The categories of major conventional weapons of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms 4

Table 2. Participation in the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms by South East Asian states, 1992-2022 12

Table 3. Numbers of items in the seven categories of the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms imported by South East Asian states, 2019-23 18

Figure 1. Extract from the imports section of the standardized form for reporting international transfers of conventional arms to the United Nations Register... 6

Figure 2. Extract from the Arms Trade Treaty reporting template 11

Figure 3. Annual participation in the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms by South East Asian states, 1992-2022 13

Figure 4. Average rates of reporting to the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms by states in South East Asia, in the rest of Asia and Oceania, and... 14

Figure 5. Extract from Malaysia's submission to the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms for 2021 15

Figure 6. Imports of major arms by states in South East Asia, in the rest of Asia and Oceania, and globally, by five-year period, 1978-2022 16

Boxes

Box 1. Reporting under the Arms Trade Treaty 10