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• A More Responsible Trade in Guns

  Published: August 23, 2007, 11:15 am

  Tags: Canada, Mc Carthy, Un Programme Of Action On Small Arms, Small Arms, Arms Trade Treaty, Att, Arms Transfers

  Programme of Action on small arms regarding transfers of small arms.Simply put, next week's meeting seeks to engage as many States as possible in collectively identifying and refining principles to govern all transfers of small arms and light weapons. But this is as far as collective action would go. The task of interpreting and applying such

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• Arms and Non-State Groups

  Published: September 6, 2007, 3:18 pm

  Tags: Unidir, Non State Armed Groups, Mc Carthy, Terrorism, Biological Weapons, Arms Trade Treaty, Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Arms Transfers, Wmd

  in Geneva on small arms transfer controls (see my posting of August 23), which is perhaps one of the reasons that the conference was so successful. The issue will have to be dealt with head on, however, by the nascent UN process leading towards the negotiation of a legally-binding Arms Trade Treaty regulating the transfer of all

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