Arms Trade Treaty
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The Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is a multilateral treaty that regulates the international trade in conventional weapons.
Campaigners outside the UN calling upon delegates to the third Conference of States Parties on the Arms Trade Treaty in Geneva to immediately stop arms transfers that violate the Treaty and kill and injure thousands of people around the world.
Signature of Slovenia
Arms control
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Arms control is a term for international restrictions upon the development, production, stockpiling, proliferation and usage of small arms, conventional weapons, and weapons of mass destruction. Historically, arms control may apply to melee weapons before the invention of firearm. Arms control is typically exercised through the use of diplomacy which seeks to impose such limitations upon consenting participants through international treaties and agreements, although it may also comprise efforts by a nation or group of nations to enforce limitations upon a non-consenting country.
Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev and U.S. President Reagan signing the INF Treaty in 1987