U.N. to launch global arms trade pact negotiations

2009/10/29 16:38:00 @Reuters: International News

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The world's top weapons exporters agreed to back negotiations on a global treaty to regulate the world's $55 billion arms trade, but Russia refused to show support, diplomats said on Thursday. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=Ejc0vh364wQ:jwETYzka_0o:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=Ejc0vh364wQ:jwETYzka_0o:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=Ejc0vh364wQ:jwETYzka_0o:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=Ejc0vh364wQ:jwETYzka_0o:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=Ejc0vh364wQ:jwETYzka_0o:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/Ejc0vh364wQ" height="1" width="1"/
[ VIEW FULL COVERAGE @Reuters: International News ]