| ID | 110597 |
| Title Proper | How to reach consensus on an arms trade treaty |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Wood, Andrew |
| Publication | 2012. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Since 2006, government representatives to the United Nations have been engaged in progressively wider and deeper discussions toward the negotiation of a treaty to regulate the trade in conventional arms. In 2009 the UN General Assembly decided to convene a conference that established a timetable for crafting an arms trade treaty (ATT), which is to be "a legally binding instrument on the highest-possible common international standards for the transfer of conventional arms. |
| `In' analytical Note | Arms Control Today Vol. 42, No.1; Jan-Feb 2012: p.21-27 |
| Key Words | United Nations ; Arms Trade Treaty ; Global Trade ; Arms Control |