Posted on 07/09/2005 6:21:41 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan
UN meets next week to chart progress on suppressing illicit trade in small arms
8 July 2005 – Calling small arms the real weapons of mass destruction because of their daily toll on human life, the heads of a conference next week to review how United Nations Member States have implemented a programme to eliminate the trade in illicit weapons today said that despite some progress, much more needed to be done.
The Chairman of the Biennial Meeting of States on the illicit small arms trade, Pasi Patokallio of Finland, said the welcome news included the entry into force a few days ago of a legally binding UN protocol against illicit firearms trafficking which sought to fight criminality by using the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime.
Two weeks ago, he added, another politically binding UN instrument was negotiated to identify and trace small arms, both in crime and in conflict situations.
On the other hand, the annual "Small Arms Survey" estimated that about 100,000 people per year died in direct conflict and small arms were responsible for up to 90 per cent of those deaths. In addition, a recent study by the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue called "No Relief" showed that small arms violence played a major role in preventing the delivery of humanitarian and development assistance, Mr. Patokallio said.
UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Nobuyasu Abe said people were now realizing that the "culprits" in the spread of small arms were international arms brokers, not necessarily Governments.
Brokers bought the arms legitimately, but then diverted them into underground markets, a practice which had saturated African countries and fuelled conflicts elsewhere, he said.
With the conclusion of the negotiations on tracing small arms, attention was now moving to controlling the brokers and that topic would also be discussed next week, Mr. Abe said.
Must be those evil US gun shows...
Heads up is right!! They will be trying to disarm the Citizens of the United States in th enext few years. they are just going to be patient and convience us that we do not NEED to defend ourselves under their New World Order govenment.
What they do not realize is that the US Citizen is armed to protect us from the New World Order Government!!
Head is always up! Inaccurate rifles are boring!
Here we see the opening scenes in the movie BLACK HAWK DOWN where the local armed Somali warlord kept on taking the UN relied food at gunpoint.
But as the typical New World Order of the United Nations thinking and agenda, they want to remove all weapons from private hands and only the Governments have the weapons to do as they wish!!
Remember in the U.N. moral thinking: George W Bush who frees Afganistan from the cruel Taliban and from Saddam's murderous clutches = BAD.
Zimbabwe's white hating, land grabbing, mass murdering Mugabe and Kim Il Jong's types are good.
And what is "illicit" small-arms trade?
Why, it's a neighbor selling me a deer rifle.
That's what they think.
I reckon we are terrorists, hell, I've been labeled worse!
I live for the day when some POS hauls a UN flag up a pole, close enough, for me, to blow it into baby blue rags, and wipe my old Redneck tail on them!
It is long over due for someone to redo "Red Dawn" or "Amerika: the miniseries" with the UN as the enemy.
In fact, THAT would probably attract the "don't go to movies" audience to go to the movies.
I would if it did not involve the any of the hollyweird types. (paging mel gibson)
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