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United Nations Must Act to Control Arms Trade: Campaigners
8 January 2006
Reuters
LONDON — The United Nations must this week pave the way for a treaty to control the sale of small arms that were behind the deaths of one million people since member states last discussed the issue in 2001, campaigners said on Monday.
Delegates from U.N. member states hold a preparatory meeting in New York on Monday ahead of a June conference on small arms.
"In 2006, the world has a choice. Either it continues to ignore the massive human cost of arms proliferation... (GunPolicy.org)