Negotiations for a new treaty on the Arms Trade have concluded without agreement, as confirmed on Friday the permanent ambassador of Argentina to the UN, Roberto Garcia Moritán.
The 193 countries that participated in this latest round of negotiations at the UN headquarters in New York, have not agreed on a legal framework to put borders to trade in arms, a fundamental requirement for enactment.
Moritán Garcia has blamed this failure on the "different perspectives" between auditors countries, which, as remarked, driving the Treaty nations already knew. "We knew this was going to be hard to get" even though "a vast majority of those present" supported the draft Treaty, has deepened Moritán Garcia, who chairs the negotiations.
In the absence of "progress" as he predicted the UN secretary general, Ban Ki Moon, the value diplomatic talks resume later - within a maximum period of three weeks - or move to the UN General Assembly together the final decision in a vote to be held later this year and in which the Treaty would be ratified by a majority of two thirds.
However, Argentina's permanent ambassador to the UN has stated that "probably going to have a treaty in 2012." During the summer will be demonstrated the procedure to follow in the coming months.
CONTRARY TO THE TREATY
Obstacles to the adoption of the Treaty have, according to sources activists, Syria, North Korea, Iran, Egypt and Algeria, which in the past have opposed any regulation in the sale of weapons.
These countries have joined Russia, which has urged the international community to continue the negotiations. In a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow criticizes the many regulatory gaps in the document has been collected by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
The draft does not meet "high standards desired" and for that reason, Russia has refused their support and present "their version", said the director of the Department of Security and Disarmament Affairs, Mikhail Ulyanov.
The U.S. also asked for more time, about six months, to delay the final decision after the presidential elections to take place in November, have pointed out the 'number two' International Security and Nonproliferation U.S., Thomas Countryman. India and Indonesia also have called for postponing the adoption of the Treaty.
Washington, which had originally given a boost to the negotiations, objected that critics of the treaty countries had not finalized the "core" of the amendments because the final draft began circulating with just 24 hours in advance.
The 193 countries that participated in this latest round of negotiations at the UN headquarters in New York, have not agreed on a legal framework to put borders to trade in arms, a fundamental requirement for enactment.
Moritán Garcia has blamed this failure on the "different perspectives" between auditors countries, which, as remarked, driving the Treaty nations already knew. "We knew this was going to be hard to get" even though "a vast majority of those present" supported the draft Treaty, has deepened Moritán Garcia, who chairs the negotiations.
In the absence of "progress" as he predicted the UN secretary general, Ban Ki Moon, the value diplomatic talks resume later - within a maximum period of three weeks - or move to the UN General Assembly together the final decision in a vote to be held later this year and in which the Treaty would be ratified by a majority of two thirds.
However, Argentina's permanent ambassador to the UN has stated that "probably going to have a treaty in 2012." During the summer will be demonstrated the procedure to follow in the coming months.
CONTRARY TO THE TREATY
Obstacles to the adoption of the Treaty have, according to sources activists, Syria, North Korea, Iran, Egypt and Algeria, which in the past have opposed any regulation in the sale of weapons.
These countries have joined Russia, which has urged the international community to continue the negotiations. In a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow criticizes the many regulatory gaps in the document has been collected by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
The draft does not meet "high standards desired" and for that reason, Russia has refused their support and present "their version", said the director of the Department of Security and Disarmament Affairs, Mikhail Ulyanov.
The U.S. also asked for more time, about six months, to delay the final decision after the presidential elections to take place in November, have pointed out the 'number two' International Security and Nonproliferation U.S., Thomas Countryman. India and Indonesia also have called for postponing the adoption of the Treaty.
Washington, which had originally given a boost to the negotiations, objected that critics of the treaty countries had not finalized the "core" of the amendments because the final draft began circulating with just 24 hours in advance.
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