PGA's International Peace and Security Program congratulates the plenary of the Senate of the Philippines on its concurrence to ratification of the Arms Trade Treaty earlier today, following Senate Foreign Relations Committee approval in September 2021.

In the past week, PGA IPSP's Senior Director has provided extensive informal input and observations to the Office of the Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senator Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III which have been gratefully acknowledged and received. PGA was pleased to organize a Workshop in the House of Representatives of the Philippines in 2007 which also highlighted, inter alia, the importance of reaching agreement on an Arms Trade Treaty, subsequently adopted at the UN in 2013 and signed by the Philippines in September 2013. PGA IPSP (formerly PGA's Peace and Democracy Program) has also provided extensive observations and guidance over the past 15 years to former Congresswoman Etta Rosales, former Congresswoman Risa Hontiveros (now Senator Hontiveros) as well as former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV in promoting adherence to the ATT in the Philippines, in addition to the office of Senator Aquilino Pimentel III. PGA IPSP now respectfully urges the Government of the Philippines to deposit its Instrument of Ratification to the Arms Trade Treaty at the earliest opportunity with the United Nations in New York.

Read more about PGA IPSP's Global Parliamentary Campaign to Address the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons and Promote Universality and Implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty

Related Links

• Senate foreign relations committee OKs Arms Trade Treaty
• Senate concurs with PH ratification of Arms Trade Treaty
• PGA Asian Parliamentary Workshop on Small Arms and Light Weapons and the Proposed Arms Trade Treaty, February 6-7, 2007, Manila, Republic of the Philippines.
• UN - National Awareness and Advocacy for Domestication of the ATT
• UN - Arms Trade Treaty