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From: unoda-web <unoda-web@un.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:07:23 -0400
Secretary-General Op-ed "The World is Over-armed and Peace is Under-funded" Appears in Leading Daily Newspapers
'The World is over-armed and peace is under-funded'
30 August 2012 — The following opinion piece by Secretary-General BAN Ki-moon appeared in leading newspapers in Bangladesh, Burundi, China, Germany, India, Iran, Italy, Lebanon, Malaysia, Republic of Korea, Turkey, Ukraine and has been translated into 10 languages.
Last month, competing interests prevented agreement on a much needed treaty that would have reduced the appalling human cost of the poorly regulated international arms trade. Meanwhile, nuclear disarmament efforts remain stalled, despite strong and growing global popular sentiment in support of this cause.
The failure of these negotiations and this month's anniversaries of the atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki provide a good opportunity to explore what has gone wrong, why disarmament and arms control have proven so difficult to achieve, and how the world community can get back on track towards these vitally important goals.Read more...
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