US Reverses Stance on Treaty to Regulate Arms Trade

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Do you get the feeling that the Masons in office are following a script.....nationalize health care, open the door to implantation of subdermal chips, regulate arms (i.e. make Americans defenseless), push the cap & trade bill to tax Americans and finance Global Government.....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States reversed policy on Wednesday and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, a stance critics said gave every nation a veto.

The decision, announced in a statement released by the U.S. State Department, overturns the position of former President George W. Bush's administration, which had opposed such a treaty on the grounds that national controls were better.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States would support the talks as long as the negotiating forum, the so-called Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, "operates under the rules of consensus decision-making….”

See:

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE59E0Q920091015


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