World news explained
 
Tuesday 03 July 2012
UN faces tough task in drafting arms trade treaty
Listen (06:09)
Add to my playlist
Download
Embed
 
Campaigners from the Control Arms Coalition lay in fake body bags to demonstrate in front of the UN building in New York, 2 July 2012, for the opening of the diplomatic conference on the future Arms Trade Treaty.
Campaigners from the Control Arms Coalition lay in fake body bags to demonstrate in front of the UN building in New York, 2 July 2012, for the opening of the diplomatic conference on the future Arms Trade Treaty.
Reuters/CAC/Andrew Kelly
By Jan van der Made

Negotiators from the 193 UN member-states are in New York to try and hammer out a treaty to regulate the global weapons market. This would be the first-ever binding treaty to regulate a market valued at more than 70 billion euros a year. Arms control campaigners say one person every minute dies as a result of armed violence around the world and that a convention is needed to prevent illicitly traded guns from pouring into conflict zones and fuelling wars. Analyst Paul Rogersnd looks at the pitfalls in drafting such a treaty.

tags : Arms - United Nations - Weapon
Related articles
React to the article
Commentez cette article en tapant votre message dans la zone de texte. Le nombre de caractères est limité à 1500 ou moins.
(0) Réactions
Close