Malaysia adalah merupakan salah satu negara utama yang banyak mengimpot senjata 
di dunia ini selain India, Singapura, Greece, Korea Selatan dan Pakistan. 
Manakala pengekspot utama senjata di dunia ialah Amerika Syarikat, Jerman, 
Perancis, Britain dan Sepanyol. Hebat betul Malaysia mendahului banyak negara 
lain dalam membeli atau mengimpot senjata. Bangga jadi rakyat pengimpot utama 
senjata untuk berperang ni, kita ada jet Sukhoi, kita ada kapal selam Scorpene, 
kita ada kereta kebal PT91-M, kita nak beli helikopter Eurocopter. Yang 
semuanya bernilai berbillion-billion ringgit.

Mari kita semua bersorak tanda kebanggaan akan kejayaan kita menjadi negara 
pengimpot utama senjata.

HIDUP 1MALAYSIA !

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The top exporters were the U.S., Russia, Germany, France, Britain and Spain and 
the top importers were India, Singapore, Malaysia, Greece, South Korea and 
Pakistan.

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First steps toward arms trade treaty
Associated Press Writer – Fri Jul 23

UNITED NATIONS – The world's nations took the first steps at a conference that 
ended Friday toward a legally binding treaty that would try to regulate the 
multibillion dollar arms trade and prevent the transfer of weapons to armed 
groups fueling conflicts, terrorists and human rights violators.

When the conference began two weeks ago in the 192-member General Assembly, 
many delegates were uncertain whether there would be wide support for a treaty 
regulating a trade which French Ambassador Eric Danon said has been veiled in 
secrecy for 2,000 years because arms trading is a matter of sovereignty and the 
weapons are "the symbol of life and death."

The main achievement of the conference, Danon said Friday, is that "the 
principle of an Arms Trade Treaty is now agreed by all the countries, even if 
some countries make reservations on some aspects."

The United States, Britain and the European Union also praised the outcome of 
the conference and even Pakistan, which was singled out by many diplomats as 
being most vocal in questioning the need for a treaty, appeared to sign on.

"We do not question the validity of the objective," Pakistani diplomat Reza 
Bashir Tarar said, but achieving consensus on a treaty — which will be required 
at the United States' insistence — "will not be easy."

"When we do, documents that emerge will have lasting value," he said at 
Friday's closing session.

The General Assembly first voted in December 2006 to work toward a treaty 
regulating the growing arms trade, with the U.S. casting a "no" vote. Last 
October, the Obama administration reversed the Bush administration's position 
and supported an assembly resolution to hold a four-week U.N. conference in 
2012 to draft an arms trade treaty with four preparatory conferences — the 
first of which just ended.

Danon called the U.S. reversal "very important" not only in launching 
negotiations on an Arms Trade Treaty but in supporting other arms control and 
disarmament efforts.

U.S. Ambassador Don Mahley said the United States is "pleased" with discussions 
so far on Arms Trade Treaty and "we hope the negotiations will continue to 
develop in a positive direction."

"The U.S. made clear last October our desire to see a negotiation that would 
produce an effective Arms Trade Treaty as a means of addressing many of the 
enduring global challenges caused by unregulated arms," he said in a statement.

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, world 
military expenditure in 2009 was estimated at $1.53 trillion. The top exporters 
were the U.S., Russia, Germany, France, Britain and Spain and the top importers 
were India, Singapore, Malaysia, Greece, South Korea and Pakistan.

There was no final document agreed by all delegates but Argentina's U.N. 
Ambassador Roberto Garcia Moritan, chairman of the preparatory process, issued 
a "Chairman's Draft Paper" which spells out possible elements, principles, 
goals and objectives of a treaty.

The 14 elements include common standards, implementation, transparency, 
compliance, international cooperation and final provisions including 
reservations.

A key principle would recognize that "the absence of commonly agreed 
international standards for the transfer of conventional arms and their 
diversion to the illicit market are contributory factors to armed conflict, 
serious violations of international human rights law and international 
humanitarian law, the displacement of people, transnational organized crime, 
terrorism and the illicit trade in narcotics..."

The goals would have a treaty "establish the highest possible common 
international standards for the import, export and transfer of convention arms" 
and "prevent, combat, and eradicate the illicit transfer, production, and 
brokering of conventional arms." 

Other key goals would promote transparency and accountability in the arms trade 
and prevent international transfers of arms that contribute to human suffering, 
serious human rights violations, armed conflict, U.N. sanctions violations, 
organized crime and terrorist acts.

Annalisa Giannella, the European Union's representative on nonproliferation, 
called the meeting a success and said it "brings the international community 
closer to agreeing" on a treaty.

British Ambassador John Duncan said the meeting made "more progress than we 
expected," adding that "those who remained unmoved by the urgent humanitarian 
need" for a treaty are beginning to see the economic case — that unregulated 
trade "harms our ability to maintain stable markets." 

France's Danon said organizing the trade in weapons will take time, and at the 
beginning a treaty "will not be very constraining" and exports will be "a 
matter of national sovereignty." 

"But we are going to organize common rules and standards of this national 
sovereignty, and I think that this is a new symbol of the globalization, and 
part of the global governance 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100724/ap_on_re_us/un_un_arms_trade_treaty  





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