Between 28-29 November, UNLIREC and Paraguay’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with funding from the ATT Voluntary Trust Fund (VTF), organized an Executive Workshop at the Diplomatic and Consular Academy, aimed at increasing technical knowledge on the obligations of the Arms Trade Treaty. The Workshop targeted officials from sectors in charge or linked to controlling conventional arms transfers and ATT implementation, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Directorate of War Material, National Police, Ministry of Interior, Public Ministry, National Customs Directorate, National Anti-Drug Secretariat, National Defense Commission of the National Congress, the Money Laundering Prevention Secretariat and the National Secretariat for the Administration of Seized and Confiscated Assets.

In addition, UNLIREC presented the regional and international context of conventional arms transfers, Treaty obligations regarding the establishment of a national control system, a national control list and the available mechanisms to present initial and annual reports before the ATT Secretariat. The information gathered from this encounter served as the basis for future discussions and as a source of inputs to identify the next steps implementing the Treaty.