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Monday, July 24, 2006

Masters Of War

On Friday 7th July, the UN world conference on small arms collapsed without agreement, despite the majority of governments, including the European Union, and many African and Latin American governments, backing tougher controls on the international trade in small arms and light weapons.

The conference collapsed after a small number of states, most prominently the United States, blocked key issues so consistently that no agreement was possible.

During the conference, moves to agree global controls on the small arms trade were also blocked by Cuba, India, Iran, Israel and Pakistan.

It is estimated that up to 12,000 people would have been killed by small arms during the two-week conference.

http://www.controlarms.org/

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