by Raluca Muresan | Jul 3, 2013 | News
On 2 July, nearly one month after the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) opened for signature, Iceland became the first State to officially ratify the landmark instrument. The ratification comes on the heels of more than 75 signatures, and shows the great momentum the ATT has...
by Raluca Muresan | Jul 2, 2013 | News
On 1 July, Poland’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York signed the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) on behalf of the Republic of Poland. They are the 75th country to do so. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) hopes that the Treaty will make it possible...
by Raluca Muresan | Jun 27, 2013 | News
On 24 June, Guatemala became the 74th country to sign the Arms Trade Treaty. In a statement to the press, the Foreign Ministry emphasized that the importance of the ATT lies in the fact that is it the first time the global community has tried to regulate the...
by Raluca Muresan | Jun 18, 2013 | News
Miroslav Lajčák, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, signed the Arms Trade Treaty at the UN on June 10, 2013. In doing so, Slovakia becomes the 72nd signatory of this treaty – the first of this kind designed to...
by Raluca Muresan | Jun 10, 2013 | News
Just days before the Arms Trade Treaty opened for signature at the United Nations parliamentarians from multiple African nations came together in a forward-looking workshop that considered the crucial role that legislators will play in the next phase of the ATT...
