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India abstains from UN vote on global arms
trade treaty
Wednesday April 03, 2013 08:54:36 AM,
IANS
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United
Nations: As the UN General Assembly Tuesday
overwhelmingly approved the first UN treaty regulating the
multi-billion dollar international arms trade, India abstained
from the resolution, stressing its strong protest over the draft
which it described as an instrument in the hands of weapons
exporting countries.
The resolution adopting the treaty was approved by a vote of 154
to 3 with 23 abstentions in the 193-member world body. Iran, North
Korea and Syria had blocked adoption of the draft by consensus at
the end of a two-week final negotiating conference last Thursday.
The three countries voted "no" on Tuesday's resolution while
Russia and China, both major arms exporters, also abstained.
Ambassador Sujata Mehta, India's Permanent Representative to the
Conference of Disarmament in Geneva, reiterating India's criticism
of the text, said the draft treaty text sought to be adopted
through this resolution "falls short of our expectations and a
number of other key stakeholders in producing a text that is
clear, balanced and implementable and able to attract universal
adherence".
She said that India has always maintained that "such a treaty
should make a real impact on illicit trafficking in conventional
arms and their illicit use especially by terrorists and other
unauthorized and unlawful non-State actors".
"India has also stressed consistently that the ATT should ensure a
balance of obligations between exporting and importing states.
She said the draft treaty is "weak on terrorism and non-state
actors and these concerns find no mention in the specific
prohibitions of the Treaty".
"Further, India cannot accept that the Treaty be used as an
instrument in the hands of exporting states to take unilateral
force majeure measures against importing states parties without
consequences. The relevant provisions in the final text do not
meet our requirements," Mehta said.
She said the Indian government would undertake "a full and
thorough assessment of the ATT from the perspective of our
defence, security and foreign policy interests".
"At this stage we are not in a position to endorse the text
contained as annexure to document A/67/L.58. Therefore, India has
abstained on the resolution. I would request that this statement
be reflected in full in the records of this Session," Mehta said.
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