lar, for each sort of effectives (recruits, militiamen, reservists, territorials, etc.) the number of these effectives and the number of day's service they have performed. The said tables shall be drawn up and published with the explanatory note referred to above by the Secretary-General not later than ...in each year. ARTICLE 31 If any youths have compulsorily received, during any year, preparatory military training within the jurisdiction of any High Contracting Party, such Party shall communicate to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, within months after the end of each year, the number of youths who have received such instruction. The above information shall be published by the Secretary-General not later than.... in each year. ARTICLE 32 The High Contracting Parties concerned shall forward to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations at the end of each year the following information as to the provisions of their law relating to the effectives recruited by conscription in their land, sea and air forces and formations organized on a military basis respectively; (1) The total number of days comprised in the first period of service; (2) The total duration in days of the ensuing periods. The above information shall be published by the Secretary-General not later than__-_-_in each year. ARTICLE 33 months Each of the High Contracting Parties shall, within from the end of each budgetary year, communicate to the SecretaryGeneral of the League of Nations a statement drawn up in accordance with a standard model, showing by categories of materials the total actual expenditure in the course of the said year on the upkeep, purchase and manufacture of war materials of the land and sea armed forces and formations organized on a military basis of such Party. The information contained in this statement shall be published by the Secretary-General not later than _. in each year. ARTICLE 34 Within one month after the date of laying down and the date of completion respectively of each vessel of war, other than the vessels exempt from limitation under Annex I to Chapter B of Part II, laid down or completed by or for them or within their jurisdiction after the coming into force of the present Convention, the High Contracting Parties shall communicate to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations the information detailed below: (a) The date of laying down the keel and the following particulars: Classification of the vessel and for whom built (if not for the 73652-5619 Standard displacement in tons and metric tons; Mean draught at standard displacement; Calibre of the largest gun. (b) The date of completion, together with the foregoing particulars relating to the vessel at that date. The above information shall be immediately communicated by the Secretary-General to all the High Contracting Parties and shall be published by the Secretary-General not later than year. ARTICLE 35 .. in each Each of the High Contracting Parties shall communicate to the Secretariat of the League of Nations the name and the tonnage of any vessel constructed in accordance with Article 19 (Chapter II). With regard to existing vessels of this type, this communication shall be made within two months after ratification of the present Convention. With regard to vessels to be constructed, the communication shall be made on the date of completion. ARTICLE 36 For each of the categories of aircraft defined in the model tables annexed to this Article, the exchange of information shall apply to the maximum figures attained in each year in respect of the number and total horse-power, and for dirigibles the total volume, by the aircraft referred to in Articles 25 and 26 of the present Convention. For this purpose, each of the High Contracting Parties will forward to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations within ........... months after the end of each year the necessary information to enable the said tables to be drawn up in the case of such Party. in The tables referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be drawn up and published by the Secretary-General not later than ... each year. THE UNITED NATIONS Western Proposals, First Phase: 1945-June 1955 Conventional Armaments and Armed Forces 52. WORKING PAPER ON COLLECTION AND VERIFICATION OF INFORMATION ON THE ARMAMENTS AND ARMED FORCES OF THE MEMBERS OF THE UNITED NATIONS, ADOPTED BY THE UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION FOR CONVENTIONAL ARMAMENTS, AUGUST 1, 1949 SECTION I-GENERAL CONSIDERATION 1. Desire expressed by the General Assembly General Assembly resolution 192 (III) of 19 November 1948 expresses the desire that the Commission for Conventional Armaments. "in carrying out its plan of work, will devote its first attention to formulating proposals for the receipt, checking and publication, by United Nations Security Council, Official Records (4th year), Supplement, September-December 1949, p. 2. an international organ of control within the framework of the Security Council, of full information to be supplied by Member States with regard to their effectives and their conventional armaments." 2. Motives for this desire This desire is motivated by two considerations: The first is that "the aim of the reduction of conventional armaments and armed forces can only be attained in an atmosphere of real and lasting improvement in international relations." The second is that any reduction of armaments implies, as a prerequisite, an exchange between States of exact and authenticated information concerning their conventional armaments and their armed forces. 3. Aims of the General Assembly resolution Accordingly, the General Assembly resolution has two objectives: In the first place, to encourage the renewal of international confidence, through a relaxation of existing conditions of secrecy, by placing the States "in possession of precise and verified data as to the level of their respective conventional armaments and armed forces." In the second place, to begin forthwith to prepare the way for a future reduction and regulation of armaments and effectives by introducing in the field of international co-operation precedents likely to become useful in the progress which still remains to be achieved in that direction. 4. Nature of proposals to be formulated Thus are determined two aspects of the proposals to be formulated according to the desire of the General Assembly: On the one hand, these proposals must be capable of implementation under existing political conditions. On the other hand, they are not designed to provide of themselves the safeguards which are essential to security, still less to give military advantage to any nation. 5. Resulting limitations Hence the need for interpreting liberally the phrases "exact and authenticated information," "full information" and "precise and verified data," in order to take into account the interests of security as well as the demand for exact data. This applies particularly to the degree of access by way of inspection for verification purposes which can be agreed to at this time by the participants. As between disclosure of information and adequate verification, the requirements of verification must be paramount. By virtue of the same premise, the measures to be proposed must also fulfil the following conditions: As a prerequisite to implementation, they should be accepted by not less than two-thirds of the Member States including all the permanent members of the Security Council. The information to be made available for census and verification according to such proposals should be purely quantitative, subject only to such qualitative specifications as will be indicated later in this document (section II). The information will be strictly limited to the existing level of effectives and conventional armaments. The information will not include data regarding research and experimental material; personnel engaged in the operation of such material will not, as such, be subject to verification, even though they may be subject to census. 6. Scope of proposals to be formulated: Proposals to be formulated should, within the above limitations, cover the following points: (1) Information to be reported, or: scope and nature of census: (2) Control of such information, or: scope and nature of verification. (3) Organ of control to be set up: status, rights and duties of the control organ and its agents; organization and administration of the control organ; relations of the control organ to the other organs of the United Nations; rights and obligations of Member States of the United Nations; rights and obligations of other States. 7. Proposals contained in this document Section II of this document only covers points (1) and (2) of the preceding paragraph. The specific proposals or general recommendations which are put forward on those two points are designed to assist in establishing a framework for the international agreement which must eventually sanction the proposals formulated by the Commission for Conventional Armaments. SECTION II-PROPOSALS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON CENSUS AND 1. Scope of census VERIFICATION A. CENSUS I. EFFECTIVES Elements subject to census should include military and para-military forces, active and reserve, on full-time and part-time basis. These elements will be designated by name for each State by the control organ. 2. Nature of census (a) Specifications to be furnished The census should indicate the breakdown of total numbers into the following categories: Ground forces; Naval forces; Air forces; Para-military forces and national police forces; Active and reserve components of each of the above categories. (b) Period to be covered The census should supply the following data to each of the above categories: Strength on a date to be designated by the control organ; Total effectives released during the preceding year expressed as a percentage of the average strength during the preceding year. (c) Forms The above information should be submitted on forms prescribed by the control organ. (d) Timing Census reports should be submitted simultaneously by all States. 1. Scope of census 11. CONVENTIONAL ARMAMENTS (a) The census should indicate quantities in the following categories: Ground forces: Automatic weapons and artillery, classified by type and caliber; Armour, classified by tonnage. Naval forces: Combatant ships, classified by type and tonnage. (b) The census should include total quantities of material both in service and in reserve. 2. Nature of census Provisions applying to the period to be covered, the form, and the timing of "personnel" census, as indicated in 1, 2 (b), (c), and (d) above, should apply to the materiel census. B. VERIFICATION I. GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS 1. The control organ should enjoy within the limits indicated above (section I, paragraph 5) the greatest possible freedom of movement and access to data fully depicting the level of conventional armaments. and effectives of each State. 2. The activities to be verified should be specified in the international agreement. 3. The control organ should be empowered to direct investigations by international verification teams which will perform all inspections, spot-checks, and physical counts needed for an adequate cross-checking of the reported information. 4. For the purpose of spot-checks, States would be requested to submit reports showing figures as of any date which the control organ might designate, for each or part of the categories of information covered by the census reports. 5. To resolve doubts which may be raised by one or several governments or by the control organ itself, provision should be made for special supplemental inspections. 1. Effectives II. SCOPE AND NATURE The complete order of battle should be made available to the control organ. 2. Conventional armaments In addition to the inspection of relevant records, verification should be based upon spot-checks of materiel both in service and in reserve wherever stored. |