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UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: ARMS TRADE TREATY RESOLUTION & YOU!

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Published on 04 Apr 2013 / In News and Politics

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The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved the first U.N. treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar international arms trade. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon welcomed the vote, saying the treaty "will make it more difficult for deadly weapons to be diverted into the illicit market and will help to keep warlords, pirates, terrorists, criminals and their like from acquiring deadly arms".
The United States, the world's No 1 arms exporter, voted in favour of the treaty despite fierce opposition from the powerful National Rifle Association lobby group.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement the UN adopted "a strong, effective and implementable Arms Trade Treaty that can strengthen global security while protecting the sovereign right of states to conduct legitimate arms trade". "Nothing in this treaty could ever infringe on the rights of American citizens under our domestic law or the Constitution, including the Second Amendment," he added, referring to the US constitutional amendment that guarantees the right to bear arms.

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