Reply: Kindly refer to the following publications on IDSA website:
Nupur Brahma, “The Arms Trade Treaty”, Backgrounder, July 17, 2012, at http://idsa.in/backgrounder/TheArmsTradeTreaty_170712
Gurmeet Kanwal, “India abstains and exposes the Arms Trade Treaty”, April 8, 2013, at http://idsa.in/idsacomments/IndiaabstainsandexposestheArmsTradeTreaty_gkanwal_080413
Prashant Dikshit, "The Inadequacies of the UN Arms Register”, August 24, 2012, at http://idsa.in/idsacomments/TheInadequaciesoftheUNArmsRegister_pdikshit_240812
Ravinder Pal Singh, “An Ideal Arms Trade Treaty from India’s Perspective, IDSA Policy Brief, July 27, 2012, at http://idsa.in/policybrief/AnIdealArmsTradeTreatyfromIndiasPerspective
Rajiv Nayan, “Politics of Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations, IDSA Policy Brief, July 27, 2012, at http://idsa.in/policybrief/PoliticsofArmsTradeTreatyNegotiations
Rajiv Nayan, “The Arms Trade Treaty and India”, July 2, 2012, at http://idsa.in/idsacomments/TheArmsTradeTreatyandIndia_rnayan_020712
Prashant Dikshit, “Addressing Indian Dilemmas on the Arms Trade Treaty”, May 15, 2012, at http://idsa.in/idsacomments/AddressingIndianDilemmasontheArmsTradeTreaty_PrashantDikshit_150512
Patterns of Arms Trade
The SIPRI report on the volume of international arms transfers during 2015-19 highlights the strengths of key strategic partnerships such as Russia-India, US-Japan and China-Pakistan, reinforced by arms trade.