Posted on 04/02/2014 11:02:44 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Eighteen countries, including five of the worlds leading arms exporters, ratified a landmark treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade on Wednesday, giving a significant boost to the campaign for the treatys entry into force. [ ]
Five of the worlds top 10 arms exportersBritain, France, Germany, Italy and Spainturned in their ratification documents at the ceremony. The other 13 were Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Malta, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
Among the hold-outs is the United States, the worlds largest weapons exporter. The Obama administration has signed the treaty but there is strong resistance in the U.S. Senate, which must ratify it.
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Canada is a major arms exporter too, and we better not sign this.
If Trudeau gets in he will in a second and every Global Warming scam he can find
I just met with my member of parliament yesterday, and things are headed in the right direction. UN funding has been drastically reduced with the goal to zero, and they’ve been trimming and cutting government spending and organizations.
If Trudeau gets in, it’ll be the worst thing to happen since his father. We’re still trying to fix what his dad did.
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