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DISARMAMENT: U.N. to Pursue Conventional Arms Trade Treaty
London :: United Kingdom | 28 days ago
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The United Nations, which is pursuing a proposal for "a world without nuclear weapons", will soon turn its attention to another new goal in the field of disarmament: creating a legally-binding treaty on conventional arms. The proposed new treaty, which...
Tags: arms trade, trade treaty
U.S. Puts Condition on Joining Talks on Conventional-Arms Trade
Washington :: DC :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced late Wednesday that the United States is prepared to begin negotiations on a global treaty regulating trade in conventional weapons but said Washington would sign the accord only if all other states...
Tags: United States, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, arms trade, U.S. Puts Condition, effective action
Africa: Thousands Die Per Day As Arms Talks Continue
New York :: NY :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Talks for An Arms Trade Deal Going At Snail's Pace As Figures Show Over 2,000 Die Per Day From Armed Violence 7 October 2009 press release Oxford — Talks to establish an effective international treaty on the trade in conventional arms are going at a...
Hell Froze Over: Russia Backs Sanctions Against Iran?
Cut and Print! We need to document this accordingly! Read in the news tonight that Russian president Dmitri Medvedev has generally agreed that sanctions against Iran would be "unfortunate but inevitable." This coming from one country that...
Tags: Arms Trade, Iran, nonproliferation, Nuclear, US Foreign Policy
A Sane Voice: Arundhati Roy
Image courtesy of cesr.org This post begins a series to recognize people that speak about the world in terms of what they observe and what they can prove. Their voices stand out in the crowd. In their words, they speak not of fantasy, delusion and rationalization....
Tags: Arundhati Roy, empire, corruption, disease, poverty, military, tyranny, oil, arms trade, corporate corruption, bloodshed, slavery, USA, India, Pakistan, fundamentalism, religion, intolerance, hatred
Ukraine army linked to money laundering
Kiev :: Ukraine | 11 months ago
Credibility Kyiv has been accused of secretly stuffing Tbilisi's arms caches with the weapons prior to and immediately after Georgia's attack on South Ossetia in southern Caucasus. The Party of the Regions, Ukraine's pro-Russian opposition party, lobbied for creation...
Tags: Ukraine, Georgia, arms trade, Valery Konovalyuk
UN panel backs call for standards in arms trade
Angola :: NY :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility A UN General Assembly panel on Friday overwhelmingly backed steps to draft a treaty establishing international standards for the arms trade. It endorsed a resolution urging UN member states to consider how to implement "the highest possible standards...
Tags: arms trade
Arms Trade 'Obstructs Poverty Relief'
Nairobi :: Kenya | about 1 year ago
Credibility Irresponsible arms transfers wrecking attempts to reduce poverty From: Oxfam International Global commitments to reduce poverty and improve lives cannot be reached unless the international community makes urgent progress towards controlling the arms...
Tags: arms trade
Arms transfers wrecking poverty reduction, warns British charity
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility Arms Global commitments to reduce poverty and improve lives cannot be reached unless the international community makes urgent progress towards controlling the arms trade, a leading British international aid agency warned Wednesday. In a new report, Oxfam...
Tags: arms trade, Oxfam
Ukraine PM seeks to revive ruling coalition
Kiev :: Ukraine | about 1 year ago
Credibility Tymoshenko told parliament on Wednesday that she would accept any conditions posed by President Viktor Yushchenko's party to salvage the collapsed coalition. "We will close our eyes and accept any ultimatums in order to preserve Ukraine's strategic orientation,...
Tags: yushchenko, ukraine, Ukraine-Russia, news, Victor Yushchenko, Viktor Yushchenko, arms trade, Crimea, Georgian, illegal arms
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