Tuesday, March 19, 2013

UN&Arms

Dear all,
Welcome.
Arms Agreement:
The United Nations is once again holding afresh talks for making rules on sales of traditional warfare/weapons. The discussion during past year's July was not successful. Now, the 193 member countries of UN would make efforts again in this direction. Under the said agreement, the countries of the world would be pressurized to assess the usage of these weapons against Human rights, terrorism, organised crime etc. However, the arms dealers opposed any such conditions. They believe that they should be kept out of the purview. USA wants grenades & dynamite etc. to be not included in the agreement. China wants protection of smaller arms. Russia wants to exclude agreement upon sending of arms to other allies.USA wants to exclude grenade/dynamite etc. as it poses a hefty expenditure on financial & administrative checking mechanisms. Also, it wants agreement to include the said clause which Russia opposes i.e. sending of weapons to allied countries. It is to note that Russia had earlier been accused of sending Cluster bombs to Syrian outfits.With regards,

M.K.Pachraiya, India

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