Suriname | ATT Status Update - 31 August, 2018

The Chair of PGA's National Group in Suriname, Hon. Patrick Kensenhuis, MP, has informed PGA that the signed Presidential Decree authorizing ratification of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) by Suriname was published in the Official Government Gazette on 29th July 2018.  The National Assembly of Suriname had adopted/approved the Arms Trade Treaty on 24 May 2018. 

Since 2011, PGA Members in Suriname, past and present, have played a central role in promoting support for adoption of the ATT and subsequently successfully also promoting signature of the ATT by Suriname in June 2013. Further details on past advocacy by PGA Members in the National Assembly of Suriname in support of the ATT over the past 8 years, including by former PGA Executive Committee Member and Deputy Speaker of National Assembly of Suriname, Hon. Dr. Ruth Wijdenbosch, may be viewed at the following links:

• Meeting of Delegation of Members of Parliament from Suriname with Ministry of Defence to promote support for the PGA Colombo Plan of Action and the Control Arms Global Parliamentary Declaration on the Arms Trade Treaty
• PGA overdracht document minister Defensie

PGA warmly congratulates all its Members in the National Assembly of Suriname, past and present, for their vital contributions in promoting adoption, signature and parliamentary ratification of the ATT over the past 8 years.