There's a, there's a big debate here, violence is going up, the use of arms and weapons is going up, we have always had the tradition that the police is unarmed and yet the number of authorisations of police being armed in the United Kingdom is going up, I got the figures the other day.
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Foreign ministers of the U.K., France, Germany and Sweden want the treaty to cover all types of conventional weapons, notably including small arms and light weapons, all types of munitions, and related technologies.
Agreements are imminent on strategic arms, chemical weapons, conventional forces and nuclear testing.
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President Bush, in particular, has proclaimed a powerful "double hit" with his initiatives on short-range nuclear forces (SNF) and conventional weapons arms control.
As it was under the original UN resolutions after the Gulf war, Iraq will be required to list all its arms to allow weapons inspectors to do their work.
In reply, Mr Hague said that while the current arms embargo prevented weapons being provided to the whole of Libya, UN security council resolution 1973 allowed "for all necessary measures to protect civilians" to be taken.
There will be no short term resolution and we will see an escalating arms race and cyber weapons incorporated in most arsenals long before we see any international agreement to restrict cyber arms.
They urged the United Nations to do more to stop weapons and arms from reaching the fighters.
If voted through, the new resolution would add more names to a list of individuals, firms and banks sanctioned for their links to Iran's nuclear and missile programmes and slap an arms embargo on heavy weapons.
The world desperately needs the final agreement to ensure that no country or arms dealer will sell weapons, munitions or related equipment to governments, companies or armed groups where there is a substantial risk of those arms and ammunition -- ranging from AK-47s to bombers -- being used for atrocities or violent abuse.
Moreover, the West needs to engage with any Russian government on issues ranging from arms control to nuclear-weapons treaties, and from Iran to Afghanistan.
The US has touted the successes it has had - such as last month's international sting operation which prosecutors say caught an arms dealer hoping to import weapons just as Mr Graham described.
While there are differences of opinions regarding Georgia, Scheffer said member states "share common security interests, " including stability in Afghanistan, arms control, nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and concerns over drug trafficking, piracy and terrorism.
The Bush Administration is willing to think about moving from strategic arms agreements that limit offensive weapons and ban defensive ones to a new set of mix-and-match totals where offensive and defensive capabilities are somehow reckoned together.
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That afternoon, while Private First Class Svehla and his platoon were patrolling a strategic hill to determine enemy strength and positions, they were subjected to intense enemy automatic weapons and small arms fire at the top of the hill.
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Kennedy now contended that both sides had a vital interest in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and slowing the arms race--a contention which led to the test ban treaty of 1963.
For centuries, countries with sophisticated weapons have used their superior arms to help maintain their dominance in the world.
Between them, they have hundreds of years of experience with nuclear weapons programs, policies and arms control.
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Meanwhile, the UK has said it may bypass an EU arms embargo to Syria in order to supply weapons to the rebels.
Anna Macdonald, Oxfam's head of arms control, said the scope of the weapons covered in the latest draft is still too narrow.
Critics of Brazil's proposed measure quote official estimates that the 2m legally registered arms are heavily outgunned by around 20m unlicensed weapons.
At the same time, the United States should seek to provide means of enforcing the present arms control regime banning first use of chemical weapons.
Both countries were at war and under arms embargoes at the time they bought the Argentine weapons.
The foreign troops confiscated any weapons they found, mostly crude homemade arms.
Correspondents say a compromise seems to have been reached: lifting an embargo on small arms for one year but keeping restrictions on heavy weapons.
They concluded that a secret army claiming the right to bear arms until Ireland was reunited had given up its weapons without securing its goal.
Despite this, the IRA leadership has decided that the re-inspection of a number of arms dumps will be repeated to confirm that our weapons remain secure.
Just four years after the US used its nuclear weapons, it found itself in a nuclear arms race with the Soviets.
The IRA announced on Tuesday it was breaking off contact with the body supervising arms decommissioning and withdrawing offers it had made on the weapons issue.
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