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Article

5 Nov 2001

Author:
UN Wire

SMALL ARMS: Rocard To Quit Eminent Persons Group

Amid ongoing controversy over how to proceed in seeking international measures on the traceability of small arms, Michel Rocard, a former French prime minister and the senior co-chairman of the Eminent Persons Group on small arms, is set to resign from the group today, according to a document obtained by UN Wire...Paris is sabotaging the small arms tracing process in the interest of French arms deals, the source alleged, by pushing for a binding instrument everyone knows would be impossible to secure.