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The United States Should Withdraw from the U.N.’s Programme of Action on Small Arms Ted R. Bromund, PhDThe 2018 meeting of the U.N. Programme of Action (PoA) on the illicit trade in small arms broke both a U.S. red line and the PoA’s principle of unanimity. As its achievements are limited at best the only reason for the U.S. to participate in the PoA was to prevent it from making bad decisions and binding U.S. policy. Now that the PoA has abandoned unanimity, the U.S. should withdraw from, and discontinue any aid through, the PoA.
In my last column, I looked at some of the dysfunctions of the U.N.’s Programme of Action (PoA) on the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons. In this column, I’ll focus on how the U.S. tries and sometimes fails to come to grips with dysfunctional institutions like the PoA.
From August 22 to 26, the second Conference of States Parties (CSP2) to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) will be held in Geneva. The United States is a signatory of the ATT, in force since December 2014 but as the Obama Administration has not transmitted this treaty to the Senate for its advice and consent, the U.S. is not party to the ATT, which purportedly seeks to regulate the international trade in many conventional weapons. As an observer nation, the U.S. will have an important voice, though no vote, in Geneva.
By Dr. Arun Mitra The investigations into murder of Punjabi Singer Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, popularly known as Moosewala in the Punjab state of India should not be limited only to tracing the murderers and members of the gangs involved, or that how was the AK 94 gun used to kill was procured by them? This is time to think beyond that and pin point the manufacturers and traders of the small arms who in the so called modern day […]