A. Given the atrocities perpetrated with impunity by state forces, it is a moral imperative that the
negotiations - scheduled to resume at the United Nations this month - on a comprehensive treaty
to regulate the sale of conventional arms should succeed.
B. Its recent report calls on countries to codify the so-called "golden rule" - not to allow the transfer
of arms to states where there is a threat of grave abuses of human rights and humanitarian law.
C. Every year, over 300,000 people are killed by conventional weapons and millions injured, forcibly
displaced, and bereaved because of armed violence, according to Amnesty International.
D. The consensus that has emerged, since the 2006 Resolution for a global pact, on underwriting
provisions related to protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the proposed treaty is
also a tacit recognition of the brutalities committed systematically against innocent civilians in the
conflict zones.
E. However, opposition by the United States, Russia, China and India, besides others, to link the trade
in arms to the observance of human rights and humanitarian law by recipient countries threatens to
block progress.
(1) DECB (2) DEBC (3) EDBC (4) ECBD
negotiations - scheduled to resume at the United Nations this month - on a comprehensive treaty
to regulate the sale of conventional arms should succeed.
B. Its recent report calls on countries to codify the so-called "golden rule" - not to allow the transfer
of arms to states where there is a threat of grave abuses of human rights and humanitarian law.
C. Every year, over 300,000 people are killed by conventional weapons and millions injured, forcibly
displaced, and bereaved because of armed violence, according to Amnesty International.
D. The consensus that has emerged, since the 2006 Resolution for a global pact, on underwriting
provisions related to protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the proposed treaty is
also a tacit recognition of the brutalities committed systematically against innocent civilians in the
conflict zones.
E. However, opposition by the United States, Russia, China and India, besides others, to link the trade
in arms to the observance of human rights and humanitarian law by recipient countries threatens to
block progress.
(1) DECB (2) DEBC (3) EDBC (4) ECBD
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