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Thursday, March 16, 2006

UN Arms Policy 'A Failure'

The UN has been criticised for failing to enforce fully any of the arms embargoes it has imposed in the last ten years. A report released on Wednesday by the Control Arms Campaign says that every one of the 13 Security Council embargoes in the last 10 years has been routinely violated and only a handful of offenders have been successfully prosecuted.The campaign is an initiative of Oxfam International, Amnesty International and the International Action Network on Small Arms.
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