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Particularly worrying is the way the ATT is rapidly becoming part of wider UN conventional arms control initiatives – which, since the ATT is not an arms control treaty, is unwelcome...

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In a bipartisan letter led by Senators Jerry Moran (R–KS) and Joe Manchin (D–WV), and half of the Senate has officially pledged to oppose the ratification of the ATT...

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Secretary of State John Kerry welcomes it with open arms, noting that the U.S. look[ed] forward to signing it as soon as the process of conforming the official translations is completed...

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The U.S. has announced that it will sign the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty as soon as it is satisfactorily translated into all official U.N. languages...

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Proponents of the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty assert that the treaty prevents signatories from supporting not only the Syrian opposition but future rebellions against other totalitarian regimes...

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At heart, many of the backers of the Arms Trade Treaty abroad and some in the U.S., dislike the entire arms trade and the U.S. predominance in it, as well as the Second Amendment...

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The U.S. has announced that it will sign the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty in the near future, once all foreign language translations are satisfactorily completed, which will happen by August 28, 2013...

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The concept of the ATT is inherently flawed, and the U.S. should neither sign nor ratify the ATT. But the process by which it was adopted is even more damaging...

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So now we have an undesirable treaty, one that will be expanded and elaborated on over time, and one that was adopted through a bad process. This is just about the worst of all possible worlds...

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One of the unreported stories about the negotiation of the Arms Trade Treaty is the effort by many U.N. members & NGOs, to blame the failure of the first negotiating conference last July on the United States...

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Late on Thursday, the U.N. conference on the Arms Trade Treaty fell apart when Iran, North Korea, and Syria opposed the treaty...

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It is extremely likely that the ATT will be adopted by consensus tomorrow. The U.S. should break consensus on this treaty text. If the U.S. does not do so, the U.S. should certainly neither sign nor ratify any Arms Trade Treaty that results from it...

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