tagged w/ Arms Trade Treaty
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The United States, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Austria and Belgium head the list of the world’s leading exporters of these types of weapons.The United States, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Austria and Belgium head the list of the... more
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The UK government is rallying the 192 UN-member countries to urgently endorse the draft resolution on global Arms Trade Treaty to streamline international sale of guns, which protagonists claim will choke supply of deadly weapons to terrorists and dictators.
Mr David Miliband, the British Foreign Secretary, says the unregulated marketing of military hardware has inflamed devastating civil wars, mainly in poor countries, and emboldened repressive regimes to torment their citizens.
“The human cost of war is palpable [and] it is the old and the young who suffer most,” Mr Miliband said in statement yesterday.
The proliferation of illegal arms across porous borders, especially in the Great Lakes region, has resulted in emergence of rebel and militia groups, among a horde of other rogue elements that have uprooted millions of people from their homes and disrupted economic activities.
Mr Miliband said the UN’s 63rd General Assembly, which convenes in New York on September 16, should support the Arms Trade Treaty as a universal instrument, providing international standards and conditions for weaponry transactions between manufacturers and legitimate buyers.
Uganda said it would support the arms-deal framework, now in its exploratory stage, once proponents specify whether the instrument would be negotiated as a convention, common understanding or binding treaty.
“In principle, we agree that there should be an international regulatory framework on arms [business],” Mr Isaac Ssebulime, the head of Multilateral organizations and Treaties in the ministry of foreign affairs, said.The UK government is rallying the 192 UN-member countries to urgently endorse the... more
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