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International Arms Trading
A resolution to improve world security by boosting police and military budgets.

Category: International Security Strength: Mild Proposed by: Barbossa Description: Acknowledging that without proper oversight and effective regulation, by police, military and custom authorities, arms transfers may be diverted to the black market, hostile entities or unauthorized end users and can increase the potential for violations of national or international law and human rights. The World Assembly hereby; Article 1 - Definitions & Clarification 1.1 Defines an arm for the purpose of this resolution as any device designed and manufactured or otherwise actualized with its primary purpose being to inflict damage or harm to living beings, systems or structures or any item which has been modified to meet this standard. This shall include arms or ammunition with the capability to be fired, launched or delivered by other arms as well as parts and components that provide the capability to be assembled into the arms. 1.2 Clarifies that this resolution shall neither apply to movements of arms by or on behalf of a nation provided that the arms remain under that nation's control nor impact on the right of nations to develop national laws concerning arms and their ownership. 1.3 Further Clarifies that nothing in this resolution shall be constructed as an attempt to nationalize international arms trading or to prohibit nations from enacting stricter national laws in regard to arms trading. Article 2 - Risk Assessment 2.1 Requires nations, prior to authorizing an arms export, to conduct an risk assessment, considering if probable cause exists that said arms may be: Used to perpetrate or enable breaches or violations of domestic laws in either the exporting of importing nations or any nations during transit. Used to perpetrate or enable breaches or violations of international law. Diverted from the intended recipients. 2.2 Requires that if the exporting nation determines probable cause exists of any of the above consequences after conducting this assessment, it shall not authorize the export. 2.3 Requires importing nations to provide any relevant documentation regarding end use or end user details requested by the exporting nation if said request is within the framework of previously established international laws. Article 3 - Arms Markings 3.1 Requires - nations to apply a unique, recognizable and traceable national marking upon all individual arms certified for export from their nation and to submit said marking for registration with the Arms Trading Oversight Committee. Article 4 - Arms Trading Oversight Committee (ATOC) 4.1 Establishes the ATOC empowers it to; 4.1.1 Operate in accordance with previously established international laws, undertaking not to procure or release any information that would violate the protection of privacy or national security interests protected by said laws. 4.1.2 Obtain annually from each nation a report for the preceding year detailing all authorized or actual international arms trades undertaken under their jurisdiction. 4.1.3 Obtain the completed export risk assessment files from all arms exporting nations for each authorized, actual or rejected international arms trade. 4.1.4 Make all reports available upon request by national governments. 4.1.5 Obtain records from national governments of all recovered illegal arms trades. 4.1.6 Maintain a register of all unique national arms markings. 4.1.7 Arbitrate any disputes arising from this resolution. Monarch's Opinion: I should point out that I'm against all GA proposals other than repeals, because I believe they have an unfair impact on the sovereignty of member nations. That being said, there are several issues I have with this particular proposal. Firstly, the proposal would require that nations conduct a risk assessment for each route that it exports arms across, which I'm sure would be an expensive endeavor. However, the proposal doesn't recognize that there are shades of grey in matters of security. The proposal doesn't take into account the amount of security that can be sent along with the arms shipments, it just specifies that nations are to deny shipments if they find "probable cause" that something would happen. Even worse though, this resolution sets up a crapload of bureaucracy in the form of creating the ATOC, but doesn't allow it to provide the one good thing that bureaucracy can provide: standardization. It's still left to the individual nations as to whether a route has probable cause that something would happen from it, and each nation may have different definitions of what that may constitute probable cause. The better option would have been for the ATOC to make this determination and create a standard all nations could use. Yes, this would involve losing more national sovereignty, which I'm absolutely against, but I'm playing devil's advocate here. This just creates a bunch of crap that any half-intelligent nation could get around with their own standards. Opposed Registered Votes: 8 Against Wintermoot - Against Libertarian Republics - Against Chanku - Against The Halibut Worshipers - Against Drexyl Nox - Against Ceardia - Against N. Cetus (Brokkoli) - Against Reon - Against

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I honestly don't have much of a problem with most of it, except the fatal flaw that the definition of arms is far too broad in my opinion.
Also, would this mean that every single bullet would need to be marked? Sounds like a nightmare.
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"International Arms Trading" was defeated 9,546 votes to 2,923.