RSN Singh analyses the Arms Trade Treaty What the Arms Trade Treaty in effect seems to do is to empower arms manufacturing countries to decide the manner and circumstances buyer countries are to use them in. Outrageously and disdainfully, both, profit and political leverage will be appropriated by the seller. They exporters could well issue a fiat that India, an essentially buyer country, will not use imported arms against the Maoists or Jihadis even as they are supplied arms by international benefactors clandestinely. Given the level of international patronage and support of evangelical organisations to the Maoists, this scenario is plausible. It is also not without precedence. Nicaragua abstained from the recent voting on the Arms Trade Treaty on 02 April this year in the UN General Assembly for reasons rooted in the past. claws.in/The-Beguiling-Arms-Trade-Treaty-R-S-N-Singh.html
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 09:30:00 +0000
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