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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsARMS TREATY MUST WAIT AFTER UN AGREEMENT FAILS
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/UN_UN_ARMS_TRADE_TREATY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-07-28-13-00-12UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- A U.N. treaty to regulate the multibillion-dollar global arms trade will have to wait after member states failed to an reach agreement, and some diplomats and supporters blamed the United States for the unraveling of the monthlong negotiating conference.
Hopes had been raised that agreement could be reached on a revised treaty text that closed some major loopholes by Friday's deadline for action. But the U.S. announced Friday morning that it needed more time to consider the proposed treaty - and Russia and China then also asked for more time.
"This was stunning cowardice by the Obama administration, which at the last minute did an about-face and scuttled progress toward a global arms treaty, just as it reached the finish line," said Suzanne Nossel, executive director of Amnesty International USA. "It's a staggering abdication of leadership by the world's largest exporter of conventional weapons to pull the plug on the talks just as they were nearing an historic breakthrough."
A Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, also blamed the U.S., saying "they derailed the process," adding that nothing will happen to revive negotiations until after the U.S. presidential election in November.
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ARMS TREATY MUST WAIT AFTER UN AGREEMENT FAILS (Original Post)
xchrom
Jul 2012
OP
We're a peace loving nation..unless profits are to be had or it's campaign season.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jul 2012
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enlightenment
(8,830 posts)1. Go USA ?
*sigh*
I'm getting a little bit tired of the argument that because Congress would not ratify <insert concept/agreement/etc> it is not worth it for the Administration to push for it.
Yes, a bunch of idiots in Congress threatened to derail ratification. Yes, it's an election year. I get it. I just don't like it. Standing up for principles means standing up for principles - not folding because it isn't convenient or politically expedient.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)2. We're a peace loving nation..unless profits are to be had or it's campaign season.
Chuuku Davis
(565 posts)3. Tere is no way Obama would let
this pass this close to the election.
But in December it will get signed