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Tonga Urged to Sign Arms Trade Treaty
28 April 2016
Matangi Tonga Online
Tonga could be used as a transfer point for the illegal trade of arms if its government doesn't sign the International Arms Trade Treaty, warns Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA).
Peter Barcroft, the New York based Director of Peace & Democracy Programme for PGA, said this week that the illicit trade in arms and weapons respects no borders and has no frontiers and he urged Tonga to sign the treaty.
"It is in Tonga's best interests to be party to a Treaty which... (GunPolicy.org)