Foreign Affairs committee  No, but I think the idea is that the criteria will be established in a way that countries will need to evaluate. Maybe you want to respond to this.

Foreign Affairs committee  I will respond and then I will pass the time to Hilary to respond to this one. How we think it will work is it will indicate.... As I said before, I think there first of all needs to be a clear recognition that there is a link between the lack of control of the arms trade and th

Foreign Affairs committee  I think the treaty is going to establish the criteria that every country will have to evaluate, and those criteria are going to determine whether the transfer could be made or not.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you. We think that the treaty needs to take these criteria into consideration. Before a country decides to transfer weapons, it must determine whether doing so will contribute to violating human rights or international humanitarian law and hinder development, in which case

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much for having us here today. Oxfam-Québec and the members of the Control Arms Coalition think that the UN Diplomatic Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, in July 2012, represents an unprecedented opportunity to greatly reduce the human cost associated with the i