On March 18, the final negotiations for an arms trade treaty will begin in New York.
OK, I'm kidding, but not by much: He announces that Stark Industries is quitting the arms trade.
He said the document "can strengthen global security while protecting the sovereign right of states to conduct legitimate arms trade".
While Western countries have criticized Russia for its arms trade with Syria, Russia has insisted it is not propping up al-Assad's regime.
Just hours after President Obama was re-elected, the U.S. backed a U.N. call to renew debate over a draft Arms Trade Treaty (ATT).
In an editorial, The Lancet urged Reed Elsevier to sever all links with the arms trade, claiming they were incompatible with the journal's values.
Government critics say that ethical considerations have been ditched in the interests of protecting the British arms trade, one of the country's largest employers.
But both anti-arms trade campaigners and defence manufacturers said the move would have little impact as the countries affected were relatively small-scale purchasers of military equipment.
This is especially true with regard to the arms trade.
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The US-Saudi relationship, for example, is flawed at a very deep and basic level, despite the existence of a massive bilateral arms trade that has gone on for decades.
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Police chiefs from this new African club of countries paraded their claimed success in curbing the small-arms trade by inviting journalists to watch piles of confiscated rifles being burnt.
Cattle raids have been going on for generations between communities, but now, with an ever-expanding and unchecked arms trade, the men are using guns instead of spears for their raids.
It monitors the use of the death penalty and the illegal arms trade, and is available as a guide for UK businesses to see which countries it is ethical to trade with.
The U.N. has worked for more than a decade on an Arms Trade Treaty designed to limit the illicit trade of such weapons, but a final draft of the treaty is stalled.
Among the challenges to getting an effective arms trade treaty is the simple fact that the USA, Russia, China, the UK and France are the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
Russia, in fact, said it will not deliver new weapons to Syria as long as the situation in that country is unstable, an official at the body in charge of monitoring Russia's arms trade said Monday, according to state media.
Oxfam has been advocating to bring the arms trade under control for more than a decade and played a crucial role in the campaign to deliver an Arms Trade Treaty that was passed by overwhelming majority vote at the United Nations in April this year.
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The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which monitors arms sales in the region, says the shipment undermines Kenya's position as a sponsor of an arms-trade treaty for Sudan.
In 1990, Presidents Bush and Gorbachev wound up a superpower summit in the United States with agreement on a number of arms control and trade issues.
"The international community can claim full ownership of this treaty, which will make trade in conventional arms more responsible and transparent, thus reducing human suffering and tangibly contributing to international peace, security and stability, " Catherine Ashton, the European Union's foreign policy chief, said in a written statement.
Moscow, therefore, could treat this as an opportunity for leverage on other issues, whether it be missile defense as we discussed last week, NATO membership talks for Ukraine and Georgia, U.S.-Russia trade issues, or a new nuclear arms limitation treaty.
Joint military exercises and Israeli arms sales brought the two countries' military establishments close, while trade and tourism expanded fast.
Trade Secretary Stephen Byers must have welcomed it with open arms when he started his job - probably seeing himself as a champion of the people.
It could even drive them out of Mercosur, the regional trade block to which both countries belong, and into the arms of the United States.
Which should come as little surprise to anyone familiar with game theory, a tool used to analyse the cold war's arms race and a favourite, perhaps not coincidentally, of Europe's trade commissioner, Pascal Lamy.
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