Clinton Backs UN Global Gun Trade Treaty, Abandons Bush Opposition - XDTalk Forums

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The Obama administration voted today to support United Nations-sponsored talks on a treaty to regulate the $55 billion-a-year trade in conventional weapons, reversing prior U.S. opposition to negotiations begun in 2006. The General Assembly, consisting of all 192 UN member governments, adopted a resolution setting out a timetable for talks during the next two years on the proposed Arms Trade... [Bloomberg (USA), via gunpolicy.org ]

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11-04-2009, 02:00 AM	#1
XDTalk RSS XDTalk Robot News Feed Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 4,507	Clinton Backs UN Global Gun Trade Treaty, Abandons Bush Opposition The Obama administration voted today to support United Nations-sponsored talks on a treaty to regulate the $55 billion-a-year trade in conventional weapons, reversing prior U.S. opposition to negotiations begun in 2006. The General Assembly, consisting of all 192 UN member governments, adopted a resolution setting out a timetable for talks during the next two years on the proposed Arms Trade... [Bloomberg (USA), via gunpolicy.org ] More...
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