Global Issues That Affect Everyone (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Irresponsible arms trade can fuel conflicts and divert precious resources away from tackling poverty and other issues. Previous attempts at arms sales codes of conduct have been problematic because of loopholes and other workarounds. At the end of October 2008, 147 states at the United Nations voted overwhelmingly to move forward with work on the Arms Trade Treaty. The US...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
The country's pro-Russian opposition has been leveling potentially damaging allegations of improper arms sales to Georgia during that country's brief war with Russia.
War News Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
President Viktor A. Yushchenko of Ukraine at a ceremony in Kiev this month remembering victims of famine in the 1930s. Sergey Dolzhenko/European Pressphoto Agency From The New York Times: KIEV, Ukraine — With the Ukrainian government reeling from a financial crisis and internal power struggles, the country’s pro-Russian opposition has been leveling potentially damaging accusations of improper arms...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
The country’s pro-Russian opposition has been leveling potentially damaging allegations of improper arms sales to Georgia during that country’s brief war with Russia.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Ukraine's pro-Russian opposition says the government secretly sent arms to Georgia during that country's brief war with Russia.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Former Argentine President Carlos Menem is formally charged with involvement in illegal arms sales in the 1990s.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Former Argentine President Carlos Menem is formally charged with involvement in illegal arms sales.
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
The Undersecretary for Peshmerga (Kurdish armed forces) Affairs in the Kurdish Regional Government in Northern Iraq Jabbar Yawer has denied the allegations that Iraqi Kurdistan had recently purchased arms from Bulgaria. "As a region we don't have the right to buy any weapons without the consent of...
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Friday signed mining and oil exploration deals with Cuban leader Raul Castro, Granma reported online. In addition to the deals, Medvedev said he and Castro discussed what he called military technical cooperation, a possible euphemism for arm sales to the communist island. Medvedev is wrapping up a four-nation tour of the region that also took him to Brazil,...
euronews24 (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... he and Raul Castro, 77, had discussed economic and "military-technical cooperation" — apparently arms sales — "as well as security and regional cooperation."The Soviet Union was Cuba's chief source of aid and trade until it disintegrated in 1991 and Cuba's relations with the Russian Federation soured. Russia is now also looking to spend money on projects such as oil exploration in...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... he and Raul Castro, 77, had discussed economic and "military-technical cooperation" - apparently arms sales - "as well as security and regional cooperation."The Soviet Union was Cuba's chief source of aid and trade until it disintegrated in 1991 and Cuba's relations with the Russian Federation soured. Russia is now also looking to spend money on projects such as oil exploration in...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... he and Raul Castro, 77, had discussed economic and "military-technical cooperation" - apparently arms sales - "as well as security and regional cooperation."The Soviet Union was Cuba's chief source of aid and trade until it disintegrated in 1991 and Cuba's relations with the Russian Federation soured. Russia is now also looking to spend money on projects such as oil exploration in...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... he and Raul Castro, 77, had discussed economic and "military-technical cooperation" - apparently arms sales - "as well as security and regional cooperation."
The Soviet Union was Cuba's chief source of aid and trade until it disintegrated in 1991 and Cuba's relations with the Russian Federation soured. Russia is now also looking to spend money on projects such as oil exploration...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
... he and Raul Castro, 77, had discussed economic and "military-technical cooperation" - apparently arms sales - "as well as security and regional cooperation."The Soviet Union was Cuba's chief source of aid and trade until it disintegrated in 1991 and Cuba's relations with the Russian Federation soured. Russia is now also looking to spend money on projects such as oil exploration in...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
A three-judge panel formally charged former President Carlos Menem with arms trafficking Friday as he watched on live video from hundreds of miles away because doctors say he is too ill to travel.
