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On October 30, the United States voted with the majority in the General Assembly to support U.N.-sponsored negotiations to regulate the conventional arms trade. The vote was 153-1, with the pariah state of Zimbabwe the lone hold out. Full Article at The Heritage Foundation
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This is massive in its impact because the U.S. is the largest conventional arms trader in the world
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Without U.S. support, the process may have been formally agreed in the sense of getting a majority vote, but negotiations would not have been conducted at a seriously high level
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The old treaty was concluded in the absence of mutual confidence during the Cold War
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I think it's fair to say they're not ready to commit to a new round of negotiations at this stage
SOURCE: Minneapolis Star Tribune
