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Summary: IANSA is disappointed that governments at the World Summit have failed to promise negotiations on an agreement regulating the small arms trade.
 IANSA is disappointed that governments at the World Summit have failed to promise negotiations on an agreement regulating the small arms trade. The document signed by the heads of state gathered at the UN in New York (US) has very limited commitments on small arms. It says only that states support the implementation of the Programme of Action (PoA), to which they had already agreed in 2001. An earlier draft of the Summit outcome document (5 August) represented some progress towards an international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) and a legally binding agreement controlling arms brokers. The US proposed huge cuts in the draft agreement on many issues, and in the following frantic negotiations the opportunity to make progress on reducing gun violence was lost. For more information go to: http://www.iansa.org/un/world-summit-2005.htm Â