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"en.20120613.24.3-386-500"2
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"The debate on the UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) started in 2006, when the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution supported by 153 countries. The United States was the only UN Member State to vote against creating the ATT. It is very important that the ATT bear fruit, in the context of a restarted arms race and escalating military spending, particularly by the US and the NATO countries, which are increasingly showing their aggressive nature. With the Treaty of Lisbon and the provisions relating to the European Defence Agency, the EU is also entering this race. Regulation of the import, export and transfer of arms will be all the more effective if accompanied by a multilateral and reciprocal disarmament process, particularly the decommissioning of the immense existing nuclear arsenals and the complete destruction of chemical and biological weapons. It is also important to tackle the instruments such as tax havens which facilitate the money laundering associated with the arms trade. We are pleased that the reference to jobs in the arms industry has been removed from the resolution. That is why we voted in favour."@en1
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