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A UN panel of experts that monitors compliance with sanctions on North Korea is investigating reports of possible weapons-related shipments by Pyongyang to Syria and Myanmar, the panel said in a confidential report. "The DPRK (North Korea ...
May 19, 2012 at 07:21 | Source: Aljazeera.com
• You report (17 May) that the minister for international development is pressing allies to sign up to an arms trade treaty. The UK government seems willing to advocate restraint from others, but unwilling to address its own practices.
May 17, 2012 at 18:00 | Source: The Guardian
Iran continues to send arms shipments to Syria in violation of a U.N. Security Council ban on weapons exports, according to a draft report by a U.N. panel released Wednesday exclusively to Reuters. The report comes as the U.N. maintains a ...
May 16, 2012 at 22:12 | Source: International Business Times
One day after the State Department said the United States would resume some arms sales to Bahrain — despite what the United States acknowledges as “unresolved human rights issues” among the country’s leadership — activists on Saturday ...
May 12, 2012 at 18:56 | Source: New York Times Blogs
At a time when the China-U.S. defense ministers just reached a four-point consensus and people are full of hope to the new stage of the military relations between the two countries, the U.S. Department of Defense submitted its annual report on China's ...
May 24, 2012 at 00:20 | Source: People's Daily Online
Taipei, May 21 (CNA) The United States Congress will continue to push for sales of advanced weapons to Taiwan to meet its defense needs, a senior congresswoman pledged in Taipei Monday. The U.S. Congress has expressed its desire to supply Taiwan with the ...
May 21, 2012 at 19:50 | Source: Global Security
Arms-control and humanitarian groups are pressing President Barack Obama to seek a tough international treaty restricting sales of conventional arms. “We are writing to encourage you and your administration to spare no effort to seize the ...
May 24, 2012 at 11:47 | Source: Bloomberg
In response to comments made by Kate Allen, UK director of Amnesty International (Write Back, May 24), I'd like to point out that the new arms sales agreed between the US and Bahrain are for Bahrain's external defence capabilities. They would not include ...
May 25, 2012 at 06:59 | Source: Belfast Telegraph
Russia, with the support of fellow veto power China, has prevented the UN Security Council from imposing any sanctions on Syria and has refused to halt arms sales to Damascus. "Al Arabiya has learned that a Russian cargo ship carrying a large ...
May 27, 2012 at 13:17 | Source: Moscow Times
MOSCOW – Russia has lifted an embargo on the supply of arms to Libya on the instructions of Russian Prime Minister Dimitri Medvedev. The embargo was initially put in place in line with UN Security Council Resolution 1970, adopted on Feb. 26, 2011 ...
May 11, 2012 at 07:16 | Source: Saudi Gazette