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Foreign Affairs committee  I think we have to acknowledge that the Security Council is a very political place. Sometimes it votes one way, sometimes it votes another. Putting the criteria into a treaty hopefully takes some of the politics out of it. I don't think you can ever take the politics completely o

June 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Hilary Homes

Foreign Affairs committee  Again, from our point of view, it's the conduct, and it's the risk that the end user will use the weapons for human rights abuses. That's what we're trying to measure, so we were trying to take some of the politics out of it. But I think Ken wants to add to this.

June 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Hilary Homes

Foreign Affairs committee  Very quickly, would it change their mind today? I think it would take a bit more work. What it would give us is more tools to say where that line is. Right now, those sales are not illegal. All we have is the argument of saying, look what's going on. We don't have an interrelated

June 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Hilary Homes

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm not sure I caught the end of that, but I think I understand generally what you're saying. The other example I would give, as a contemporary example that hasn't been in the headlines in the same way Syria has, is Sudan. With the conflict in Darfur, there was a Security Counci

June 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Hilary Homes

Foreign Affairs committee  Thanks, Mark. I'm going to speak briefly on why we need an arms trade treaty and provide a contemporary example of a situation that we hope will be addressed by an effective arms trade treaty. What exists now in terms of regulating conventional arms is a patchwork of national,

June 11th, 2012Committee meeting

Hilary Homes