The lowest level of participation was in calendar year 1998, when only 6 per cent of Member States participated, while the highest level of participation was in calendar year 2001, with 32 per cent of States participating. Participants at the subregional workshops on the Register held in West and Southern Africa noted that reasons for non-participation could include: tensions within a subregion; bureaucratic difficulties in submitting reports; and concerns over national security related to transparency measures.
Les participants aux ateliers sous-régionaux sur le Registre organisés en Afrique occidentale et en Afrique australe avaient fait observer que le défaut de participation pouvait être dû, notamment, à des tensions au sein d'une sous-région, à des lourdeurs bureaucratiques ou à la crainte que les mesures de transparence ne portent atteinte à la sécurité nationale.