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Arms and the lobbyists

New Zealand could advance its case for a seat on the Security Council in 2015-16 by helping Pacific countries stay staunch in the UN’s upcoming Arms Trade Treaty negotiations, Amnesty International says.

By Joanne Black In Current Affairs

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7th July, 2012
The world produces enough ammunition each year to kill its entire population twice over, and weapons can end up being used against the country that sold them, but neither of those facts makes getting a comprehensive Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) through the United Nations any easier, says Amnesty International. Widney Brown, Amnesty’s senior director of international law and policy, was in New Zealand recently to ask the Government and officials to stand firm in support of the Arms Trade Treaty, and also to urge New Zealand to support Pacific countries in the face of likely intense lobbying to ...

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