First Steps Toward Arms Trade Treaty

By EDITH M. LEDERER 2010-07-24T03:26:07Z UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The world's nations took the first steps at a conference that ended Friday toward a legally binding treaty that would try to regulate the multibillion dollar arms trade and prevent the transfer of weapons to armed groups fueling conflicts, terrorists and human rights violators....

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