UN fails to reach deal on global arms trade treaty, as US asks for more time

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

UNITED NATIONS – U.N. member states have failed to reach agreement on a new treaty to regulate the multibillion dollar global arms trade.

Some diplomats and treaty supporters blamed the United States for triggering the unraveling of the month-long negotiating conference.

Hopes had been raised that agreement could be reached on a revised treaty text that closed some key loopholes by Friday's deadline for action. But the United States announced Friday morning that it needed more time to consider the proposed treaty -- and Russia and China then also asked for more time.

Ambassador Roberto Garcia Moritan, the conference chairman, predicted that despite the failure to reach consensus on a treaty "we certainly are going to have a treaty in 2012."

He said the overwhelming majority of U.N. member states like the treaty and there are several options for moving forward.

A bipartisan group of 51 U.S. senators on Thursday threatened to oppose the global treaty regulating international weapons trade if it falls short in protecting the constitutional right to bear arms.

In a letter to President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the senators expressed serious concerns with the draft treaty that has circulated at the United Nations, saying that it signals an expansion of gun control that would be unacceptable.

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Pushback against unconstitutional international interference.

[Valin]

@WestVirginiaRebel

 

rms Trade Treaty conference ends without agreement

David Kopel

July 27, 2012

 

 

 

The weeks-long conference at the United Nations to produce an Arms Trade Treaty is ending without the creation of a treaty. None of the draft treaties which have circulated in the past several days came remotely close to finding consensus support.

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The 2001 UN Programme of Action on Small Arms remains in effect. Over the last two decades, a large gun control infrastructure has grown up in the United Nations, not only in the headquarters building, but also within many of the UN various commissions and departments. Likewise, there are a significant number of NGOs which have a strong commitment to global gun control, and to using international law and the UN to solve what they consider to be the problem of excessive gun ownership in the United States. The NGOs and their UN allies have successfully used the 2001 PoA to sharply restrict gun ownership in some parts of the world, and they would have used the ATT for the same purpose. That they did not succeed in creating an ATT may be very disappointing to them; they are not going to go away, or relent in the pursuit of their objectives.

 

But in their pursuit, they are not going to have the new weapon of an ATT. This is good news for human rights worldwide, especially for the fundamental human right of self-defense against violent criminals, and against violent criminal tyrannical governments.

 

 

[SrWoodchuck]

.......and it might hurt someone's re-election numbers.......

[RidesAPaleHorse]

Charleton Heston said it best. (and no, it's not "prying them from my cold, dead hands")

 

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[Pepper]

Charleton Heston said it best. (and no, it's not "prying them from my cold, dead hands")

 

http://i979.photobuc...RAPH6969/55.jpg

 

but

but

but

Obama says it is all about recreational shootin' and huntin'

 

 

“We recognise the traditions of gun ownership that passed on from generation to generation, that hunting and shooting are part of a cherished national heritage,” said Obama during remarks made at a National Urban League Conference in New Orleans.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tEh_Kxv9GM