Sunday, July 8, 2012

Russia Wants Flexibility in Arms Trade Control

Russia Calls For Flexibility In Arms Trade Control -- RIA Novosti

A future global arms trade treaty should outline general principles for preventing illegal arms trade and should leave it up to national governments to decide on particular ways of their implementation, a senior Russian diplomat said during a United Nations Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty under way in New York.

“The document should establish general rules and principles, while their implementation mode will be decided upon by governments proceeding from the specifics of national legislation and existing practice,” Alexander Deineko, the deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Department of Security and Disarmament, told the participants in the conference on Friday.

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My Comment: Russia should not be concerned ....they and everyone else will talk the talk ... but they are not going to do the walk.

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