Italy welcomes the positive outcome of the work on drafting an Arms Trade Treaty at the United Nations. After long negotiations, the text was supported by a broad coalition of over 150 countries, including Italy, who today approved a General Assembly Resolution establishing that the treaty will be open for signing on 3 June 2013 in New York. <\/P>
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This paves the way for an international legal framework governing the arms trade. The absence of such a framework until now has benefited those dealing in illegal arms trafficking, to the harm, above all, of civilian victims of armed conflict in the world\u2019s most troubled regions. <\/P>
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The future treaty is a necessary step in the effort to provide coherence and vision in an endeavour that will bring together the international agendas for peace and security, legality, human rights and development.<\/P>
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For this reason, Italy has been engaged with its European Union partners, as part of a broad coalition of states from all continents, in supporting a just cause. A cause it has advocated with energy, along with the most committed elements of international civil society. <\/P>
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The text adopted represents a strong, balanced and realistic agreement that combines the demands of producer and importing countries with a marked improvement in the way one of the most sensitive issues in international relations is handled. <\/P>
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Efforts will now move to an international campaign to support the signing and ratification of the Treaty so that the world will at last have universal rules regulating a legitimate international trade in conventional arms.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy welcomes the positive outcome of the work on drafting an Arms Trade Treaty at the United Nations. After long negotiations, the text was supported by a broad coalition of over 150 countries, including Italy, who today approved a General Assembly Resolution establishing that the treaty will be open for signing on 3 June 2013 […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26,42],"class_list":["post-17441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-onu","tag-unione-europea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134849,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17441\/revisions\/134849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}