State Dept. Official Assures World: Biden Admin Wants to Bring Back Arms Trade Treaty

[mauserme]

 

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/01/state-dept-official-biden-arms-trade-treaty-international-gun-control/

State Dept. Official Assures World: Biden Admin Wants to Bring Back Arms Trade Treaty (International Gun Control)

by AWR Hawkins

1 Sep 2021

 

State Department official William Malzahn spoke August 31, 2021, at the Seventh Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty and made clear the Biden Administration is committed to international gun control.

 

Malzahn is the Acting Deputy Director of the Office of Conventional Arms Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of State.

An NRA-ILA transcript of Malzahn’s speech, obtained by Breitbart News, shows an emphatic emphasis on international gun control and specific, repeated mention, of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT).

Malzahn’s opening comments:

I have come from Washington D.C. this week to take the floor on the agenda item Treaty Universalization to underscore the continuing commitment of the United States to responsible international trade in conventional arms.  The United States has long supported strong and effective national controls on the international transfer of conventional arms, and the Arms Trade Treaty is an important tool from promoting those controls internationally.

He spoke about the Conventional Arms Transfer Policy (CAT), the current guiding policy for “arms transfers,” noting that the Biden Administration has been working to strengthen CAT. He stressed that the changes in CAT were guided by “respect for international law and human rights and U.S. national security interests in arms transfers.”
 

Malzahn also pointed out that the revised CAT policy will provide a “framework to review specific arms transfer issues, including determining the proper relationship of the United States to the Arms Trade Treaty.”

 

In mid-December 2016, Breitbart News reported then-President Barack Obama’s efforts to secure ratification of the Arms Trade Treaty.

The 2016 push came after Obama’s failure to secure ratification in 2013 garnered a lot of attention. Breitbart News reported the treaty was signed by Secretary of State John Kerry on September 25, 2013, but it was not binding because Republican Senators shot down ratification efforts.

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[Flynn]

And Biden's first move was to hand a terrorist organization control of a county along with billions upon billions of dollars worth of US arms?

[fxdpntc]

On 9/4/2021 at 10:21 PM, Flynn said:

And Biden's first move was to hand a terrorist organization control of a county along with billions upon billions of dollars worth of US arms?

That’s because the Biden administration doesn’t negotiate with terrorists. They make them an ally. Coming soon.

[dragos111]

Arms control to Biden means, you give them $83 billion of arms and they now control them.  Afterward he gave a speech.  He was quoted as saying, "Come on, Man.  You know, the thing? You dog faced pony soldier!"  The Washington Post called it "His most inspired speech, ever!"

[SiliconSorcerer]

I'm not sure all Democrats had signed up for that either, nor would now. 

[raymond963]

On 9/7/2021 at 12:02 PM, SiliconSorcerer said:

I'm not sure all Democrats had signed up for that either, nor would now. 

 

They signed up for it when they voted for him...

[Lou]

On 9/7/2021 at 1:58 PM, raymond963 said:

 

They signed up for it when they voted for him...

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