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Foreign Ministers call for new effort to achieve an arms trade treaty
At the UN conference in July 2012, no agreement was reached on an international treaty to regulate worldwide arms trade (Arms Trade Treaty).
In a joint communiqué published today, the Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, the UK, Italy and Spain, as well as Sweden’s Minister of Trade, have come out in favour of launching a new effort to conclude such a treaty.
The six Ministers have called upon the ongoing UN General Assembly session to generate the momentum for the resumption of the negotiations in 2013. They are advocating a legally binding treaty covering all types of conventional weapons, including small arms and ammunition.
