Thursday, October 8, 2009

More than 2,000 people each day die in armed conflicts

More than 2,000 people each day die in armed conflicts around the world, announced this morning a group of 12 attorneys, urging the state to speed up negotiations on an agreement that would regulate the global arms sales.

The report, which is for the law written by the British Association "Oksfam", was published at the time when the UN General Assembly committee considering the draft resolution would be determined by the date for beginning negotiations on concluding an appropriate agreement by 2012. year. The document states that since 2006, when most governments agree on the need to regulate the global weapons sales, the conflict killed 2.1 million people, that is to say 2000 of them killed in one day, or more than one man in one minute killed in armed conflicts.
Most of the people suffers in Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, Sri Lanka and the Democratic Republic of Congo, it said.
Supporters of regulation say that the agreement to enable synchronization between the regional and global arms sales, since the current legal vacuum that allows the most complete weapons on the black market. In the past, the main opponent of the agreement on global weapons sales were the U.S., which is advocating for national control. Washington last year involved more than two-thirds of the total sales of weapons, worth 55.2 billion dollars. China, Russia and Israel, as a major exporting country of weapons, they refrained from the vote last year on this issue at the UN.

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