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Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation Tom Countryman is in New York for the final week of the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty Conference, which ends Friday. Conventional arms trading is estimated to be worth more than $70 billion a year, and the conference is still behind schedule. According to AFP, discussions are still hindered ...

Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation Tom Countryman is in New York for the final week of the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty Conference, which ends Friday. Conventional arms trading is estimated to be worth more than $70 billion a year, and the conference is still behind schedule. According to AFP, discussions are still hindered by disagreements between the main powers and a "small but determined minority of states who oppose the treaty." 

Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation Tom Countryman is in New York for the final week of the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty Conference, which ends Friday. Conventional arms trading is estimated to be worth more than $70 billion a year, and the conference is still behind schedule. According to AFP, discussions are still hindered by disagreements between the main powers and a "small but determined minority of states who oppose the treaty." 

Elsewhere:

  • Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will deliver the keynote address at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Forward-Looking Symposium on Genocide Prevention in Washington. Later today, the secretary will meet with Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe.
  • In Vienna, Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller will meet with counterparts about strengthening conventional arms control in Europe.
  • Special Representative for Global Intergovernmental Affairs Reta Jo Lewis met with the legislative chairman and governor of Leningrad Oblast in St. Petersburg Tuesday.
  • Special Representative to Muslim Communities Farah Pandith is in London through July 27 for the 2012 Hours Against Hate campaign’s Olympic partnership.
<p> Allison Good is an editorial researcher at Foreign Policy. </p>

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