Jan Egeland on Arms Trade Treaty

The director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and the former UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian affairs on why we need an Arms Trade Treaty. New report from Oxfam, Changemaker, Norwegian Forum for Development and Environment, Norwegian Church Aid and a coalition of NGOs reveal that death toll reaches 2.1 million in three years of talks about talks issue urgent call to launch negotiations on arms trade treaty.

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• Trade
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[RadarGuidedVermin]

The real agenda here is to get at civilian firearms owned by law-abiding folks. For example, the UN is pushing for a registration provision for American citizens. Don't be duped by a left-wing organization comprised of a bunch of piss-ant countries that all hate America's freedoms.

[fspzain]

HOW THE WORLD WILL LOOK LIKE IF THESE FIVE COUNTRIES STOP THEIR ARMS EXPORTS FOR GOOD

[fspzain]

Whether arms are transferred to Rogue governments who commit human rights violations or are transferred to good governments according to the book, arms are arms and those kill.... People die whether conflict is a genocide or a legitimate conflict under Geneva Conventions...How can we justify Legitimate arms transfers, and how can we justify countries producing arms more than their legitimate defence need and selling them for commercial considerations

[fspzain]

Regulation of arms transfer is secondary step, Production and Development is the first from where world must commence but unfortunately no international human rights organization talks about that, Norway is a proud member of EU, where Germany, France and UK are 3rd, 4th and 5th largest arms producer and exporters in the world, It is also unfortunate that World top five arms producers and exporters are permanent members of United Nations Security Council, and control 75% share of world arms marke