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July 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda On July 28, anti-arms trade campaigners condemned the role of the UK government, which supports an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) while maintaining its extensive weaponry exports to countries which the Foreign and Commonwealth Office classifies as “countries of concern” for their poor human rights records.
Saying that they don’t want “a regulated and legitimized arms trade as envisaged by the ATT,” the activists urged the UK government to bring an end to its practice of selling weapons.
“It is hypocrisy for the UK government to support the ATT while continuing to promote and export weapons to dangerous, aggressive and undemocratic regimes,” said CAAT spokeswoman Kaye Stearman.
“The recent report of the parliamentary Committees on Arms Export Controls (CAEC) made stinging criticisms of government policy, including the contradictions between supporting human rights in Arab Spring countries, while continuing to export weapons to these same countries.”
Earlier on July 13, the Committees on CAEC in the House of Commons published their first joint report, which assesses the recent UK Strategic Export Controls Annual Report (2010), the government’s recent review of arms exports to the Middle East and North Africa and quarterly reports on arms exports across 2010 and 2011.
Meanwhile, delegates at the International Arms Trade Treaty talks in New York, which ended on July 27, did not reached an agreement after several states asked for extra time.
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