Foreword by the Secretary-General

By its resolution 35/142 B of 12 December 1980, the General Assembly requested the Secretary-General, with the assistance of an ad hoc group of qualified experts in the field of military budgets, to refine further the reporting instrument and to examine and suggest solutions to the question of comparing military expenditures among different States and between different years, as well as to the problems of verification that will arise in connexion with agreements on reduction of military expenditures. The Assembly also requested the Secretary-General to report on the question to the General Assembly at its second special session devoted to disarmament.

Related Subject(s): Disarmament