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Global Arms Trade Treaty picks up speed

Diplomats at the United Nations’ talks on the future Arms Trade Treaty  made serious progress last week with a growing number of key countries bringing their support to the process. The week was also marked by pro-ATT statements from global investors’ with over NZ$ 1.4 trillion in assets, an international group of armed violence survivors and representatives from the arms industry, all calling for a robust and internationally-binding treaty to be agreed in July 2012.

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