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Article

14 Jul 2005

Author:
Control Arms campaign: Amnesty International, Oxfam International, IANSA (International Action Network on Small Arms)

UN ‘deal’ on arms controls means business as usual for the world’s worst arms dealers

The new UN agreement on a system to track small arms and light weapons is toothless and riddled with loopholes, according to the Control Arms campaign...The Control Arms campaign warned that the failure to agree a legally binding system to track weapons means that unscrupulous arms dealers will continue to get away with selling weapons to serious human rights abusers and war criminals without being traced...the opposition of just a few countries, particularly the United States, Iran and Egypt, means that the chance to have a serious impact on the activities of arms dealers has been lost.

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