So now we have an undesirable treaty, one that will be expanded and elaborated on over time, and one that was adopted through a bad process. This is just about the worst of all possible worlds…
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One of the unreported stories about the negotiation of the Arms Trade Treaty is the effort by many U.N. members & NGOs, to blame the failure of the first negotiating conference last July on the United States…
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Late on Thursday, the U.N. conference on the Arms Trade Treaty fell apart when Iran, North Korea, and Syria opposed the treaty…
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It is extremely likely that the ATT will be adopted by consensus tomorrow. The U.S. should break consensus on this treaty text. If the U.S. does not do so, the U.S. should certainly neither sign nor ratify any Arms Trade Treaty that results from it…
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In New York, the Arms Trade Treaty conference is entering its final phase, and the ways in which the negotiations might fail are becoming clearer…
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The temperature of the conference is notably lower now, and there is a renewed sense that Thursday is likely to bring agreement on a much sought after Arms Trade Treaty…
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Late on Friday, the president of the U.N. Conference negotiating the Arms Trade Treaty released his latest draft of the treaty…
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By the time Friday came to a close, it seemed possible that the conference might collapse into the same acrimonious confusion that ended last July’s negotiations…
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The atmosphere, which had in previous days been calm, felt like last July, when the last negotiating conference collapsed into failure…
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As the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) conference moved through its third day, the isolation of the United States became ever clearer…
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The morning’s discussion (March 19th 2013 ) at the U.N. on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) brought into focus one of the underlying tensions among the nations negotiating the treaty…
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As we have explained, we believe the ATT is a bad idea, will not work, and poses numerous prudential risks to U.S. interests. But now that the conference has started, it is time to assess the main controversies…
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The American Bar Association’s Center for Human Rights issued a white paper on the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which concludes that “the proposed ATT is consistent with the Second Amendment”, or is it???
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