The New American
On November 7, the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly voted 157-0 (with 18 abstentions) in favor of Resolution L.11 that will finalize the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) in March 2013.
China, the United Kingdom, and Germany all voted to move the historic measure toward passage.
As we have reported,
when the treaty was being deliberated in July, the United States was
the only obstacle preventing the global arms control regulations from
being imposed on the world.
Miraculously, however, all the points of the agreement Secretary Clinton found so distasteful
in the summer were made so much more palatable after President Obama’s
reelection, and every single attack on the right to bear arms remains in
the version of the treaty approved on November 7.
Within hours of his securing his reelection, President Obama placed a
late night call to the U.S. United Nations delegation ordering them to
vote in favor of a passage of L.11.
As soon as news of the U.S. policy 180 was confirmed, a new round of
negotiations on the treaty was scheduled for March 18-28 at the UN
headquarters in New York City.
That was immediately followed by a press release sent out
early the next morning from the United Nations General Assembly’s First
Committee proclaiming the good news of President Obama’s go-ahead for
the gun grab and setting the agenda for the next gun control conference.-[Full Article]
