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India Abstains and Exposes the Arms Trade Treaty
Once again India has been forced to abstain from voting in favour of a discriminatory global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) – after its unpleasant experience with the NPT and the CTBT in the past. The treaty, aimed at laying down common international standards and limiting the illicit sale of conventional arms, was passed by the [...]
UN Passes Landmark Arms Treaty
The United Nations has overwhelmingly approved (154-3 with 23 abstentions) a landmark treaty regulating trade in conventional arms. The legally-binding treaty sets international standards to regulate the import, export and transfer of conventional weapons – from battle tanks, warships and attack helicopters to small arms and light weapons. Major arms exporters, such as the United [...]
European governments call for robust arms trade treaty
France, Britain, Germany and Sweden called Monday on the United Nations to quickly draw up a comprehensive arms trade treaty that will reduce what they called “a growing threat to humanity”. The appeal came as UN member states were set to launch talks later Monday in New York on drafting the first comprehensive arms trade [...]
Pentagon chief calls for Senate to ratify law of sea treaty
US defense chiefs appealed Wednesday for lawmakers to ratify the UN convention on the law of sea, saying the country was at a disadvantage because of the Senate’s refusal to back the accord. The UN convention governing maritime rights entered into force in 1994 but despite support from successive American presidents from both parties, the [...]
Obama, Clinton praise Indonesia over nuclear treaty
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday praised Indonesia for ratifying the nuclear test ban treaty CTBT, a move which brought the pact one step closer to coming into force. Obama said the move by a country where he spent four years as a boy showed the “positive leadership role” that Indonesia could play in combating [...]
US dismantles last big Cold War nuclear bomb
Technicians in Texas closed a chapter on the Cold War on Tuesday, dismantling the oldest, biggest and most powerful nuclear bomb in the US arsenal, officials said. The last B-53 bomb — built in 1962, the year of the Cuban missile crisis — was dismantled at the Pantex facility in Amarillo, the only place in [...]
US has ‘nuclear superiority’ over Russia
Data published by the U.S. Department of State on Tuesday indicates that the United States has some 300 more deployed nuclear weapons than Russia. According to New START Treaty Aggregate Numbers of Strategic Offensive Arms facts sheet, posted on the State Department’s website, the United States has 822 deployed ICBMs, SLBMs, and heavy bombers, while [...]
Taiwan president mulls peace treaty with China
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou Monday suggested the island should consider signing a peace treaty with China within the coming decade, formally ending a civil war that has actually been over since 1949. A peace treaty is widely considered one of the thorniest issues in the complex relations between China and Taiwan, reflected in Ma’s reassurance [...]
US, Australia defense treaty to cover cyber threats
America and Australia plan to add cyber warfare to their countries’ joint defense treaty to reflect the “battlefield of the future,” according to US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. He told reporters that defense and foreign ministers from each country will Thursday issue a joint statement on the topic at an alliance meeting in San Francisco. [...]
