What these global principles would do would be to set an international standard by which national governments could be held to account. They would be held to account only to the degree that people in their own countries are going to hold them to account. Global standards will give a tool by which civil society movements in each country can insist that their governments live up to these agreements. The only real safeguard is a strong peoples' movement that is insisting on no more guns, or insisting on some control of these guns. That's part of the work we're involved in, supporting organizations overseas to do that.
On June 20th, 2006. See this statement in context.