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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 23. december
2014 / Time Line December 23, 2014
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22. December 2014, 24. December 2014
12/23/2014
UN officials hail entry into force of landmark global
Arms Trade Treaty
- http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=49668#.VJr5VF4DWs
23 December 2014 - United Nations officials are welcoming the entry into
force of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), hailing it as a new chapter in
collective efforts to bring responsibility, accountability and transparency
to the global arms trade.
"From now on, the States Parties to this important treaty will have a legal
obligation to apply the highest common standards to their international
transfers of weapons and ammunition,"Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon said in a statement
issued today ahead of
the instrument's entry into force on 24 December.
The ATT, adopted by the UN General
Assembly on 2 April 2013, is the first legally-binding multilateral
agreement that prohibits States from exporting conventional weapons to
countries when they know those weapons will be used for genocide, crimes
against humanity or war crimes. As of 23 December, 60 States had ratified
the treaty, and 130 had signed it, indicating that they intended to ratify.
Ultimately, the ATT, the UN Chief said, attests to "our collective
determination to reduce human suffering by preventing the transfer or
diversion of weapons to areas afflicted by armed conflict and violence and
to warlords, human rights abusers, terrorists and criminal organizations."
12/23/2014
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