Issued by the Working Group on Treaty Universalization English

The WGTU was established by the Third Conference of States Parties to the ATT (CSP3) with the objective of leading the process of harmonizing thoughts and ideas on the issue of Treaty universalization with a view to determining the best approaches for taking the issue forward. [...] One decision concerns the adoption of the proposal on “Enhancing the Work of the ATT Working Group on Treaty Universalization (WGTU)”, setting out recommendations to, inter alia, “[t]ask the WGTU to further elaborate details, as appropriate, regarding universalization efforts including a possible role of industry during the CSP10 cycle”.2 The other decisions concern the adoption of the proposal on. [...] As Co-Chair, the Republic of Korea announced that it had finalized its project to translate the “ATT Universalization Toolkit” and the “Welcome Pack for New States Parties to the ATT” into all the ASEAN languages.5 The Republic of Korea has also promoted the ATT in relevant meetings and activities in the Indo-Pacific region. [...] Under this agenda item, the WGTU Co-Chairs presented the two parts of their working paper, respectively dealing with the WGTU’s future universalization efforts in line with the adopted proposal on “Enhancing the Work of the WGTU” and the alignment of the WGTU’s work with the mainstream agenda of WGETI through structured discussions on national ratification/accession and domestication practices. [...] It is an annex to the WGTU Co-Chairs’ Draft Report to CSP10, and gives effect to the instruction of the CSP9 to “explore possibilities of aligning [the] work [of the WGTU] with the mainstream work of WGETI”, which is set out in the proposal on the WGETI configuration and substance that was adopted at CSP9.1 As indicated in paragraph 19 and 2014 of the WGTU Co-Chairs’ Draft Report to CSP10working p.