President Bush, in particular, has proclaimed a powerful "double hit" with his initiatives on short-range nuclear forces (SNF) and conventional weapons arms control.
They urged the United Nations to do more to stop weapons and arms from reaching the fighters.
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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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Agreements are imminent on strategic arms, chemical weapons, conventional forces and nuclear testing.
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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.
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 foreign troops confiscated any weapons they found, mostly crude homemade arms.
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 U.S. so far has balked at sending weapons to the rebels, fearing the arms could end up in the hands of al-Qaida-linked groups or other extremists in the opposition ranks.
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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Just four years after the US used its nuclear weapons, it found itself in a nuclear arms race with the Soviets.
Soil bacteria and fungi are particularly proficient at producing natural chemical weapons, apparently as part of a subterranean arms race to spew out toxic chemicals to kill rival species.
In Baghdad, a high-level official in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior described, also on condition of anonymity, an elaborate system to divert weapons from Ministry of Interior facilities to local arms traffickers and militias.
European money could also help speed up the disposal of Russia's already large stocks of weapons-usable plutonium, which are set to grow as more weapons are dismantled in line with the recent arms-cutting agreement with America.
Chief among these interests are: counter-terrorism, disposal of Soviet-built chemical and biological weapons, security of nuclear and radiological materials, arms control, nonproliferation, and the responsible withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan.
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The arsenal that the weapons complex and laboratories support is comprised of increasingly obsolescent arms and their delivery platforms.
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.
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