The impact of poorly regulated arms transfers on the work of the United Nations

Many areas of world trade are covered by regulations that bind countries into agreed conduct. At present, there is no global set of rules governing the trade in conventional weapons. An eclectic set of national and regional control measures and a few global instruments on arms transfers exist, but the absence of a global framework regulating the international trade in all conventional arms has obscured transparency, comparability and accountability. This may be one of the reasons why too many weapons are misused or are diverted to unlawful owners, and too often an arms export request denied by one country will be approved by another.

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