Disarmament

Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)

Greece supported the negotiation process on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which was aimed at establishing a legally binding global treaty that will oversee the legal trade in the major categories of conventional weapons. The principal goal of the Arms Trade Treaty is the regulation of legal trade for the purpose of limiting illegal trafficking in conventional weapons.

The ATT went into effect on 24 December 2014, 90 days after the deposit of the fiftieth instrument of ratification. Greece signed the Treaty in June 2013 and ratified it in 2016 following the signature of the co-competent Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defence, Civil Protection, Justice, and Finance.