Thanks to supporters like you, after nearly ten years of campaigning, a global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) came close to being agreed in July.
And today sees the next step forward in the campaign, as world governments meet again at the United Nations for the UN General Assembly. Keep updated on the treaty.
Governments will be putting forward a resolution to set a further ATT conference in March 2013. This is good news and shows the commitment to continue working for a treaty.
However, we think it’s important that they don’t hold this new conference under the same veto rule as they did in July. We’re concerned that this would make it harder to close the loopholes in the current Treaty text, and could again lead to the Treaty being blocked by a small group of countries.
The ATT is too important to be blocked, so the new conference should not be on the same veto rule as July.
Loopholes in the current draft must also be closed to ensure we get a Treaty that’s bulletproof and will save lives and livelihoods.
