"We saw earlier this year with rebel groups coming from Chad and Sudan going into northern Cameroon slaughtering 450 elephants, taking the ivory for the purpose of selling it in order to buy arms for local conflicts" he said.
At the same time, the troops responsible for wielding such arms in order to keep the rest of us safe and free are being asked to sacrifice as never before, with some performing their fourth, fifth or sixth combat tours.
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Meanwhile, the UK has said it may bypass an EU arms embargo to Syria in order to supply weapons to the rebels.
In order to establish strong evidence of an arms-length negotiation, buyers tend to make an offer a little lower than the ultimate takeover price to allow for adjustments later, especially when they own a piece of the target anyway.
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Other factors include the decision by radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to order his followers to lay down their arms and the move by many Sunni insurgents to switch sides and fight on the U.S. side -- for pay.
Only two months ago, when his party won a general election, he let a pair of diehard Socialists have safe seats: Sifis Valirakis, a former public-order minister who was once accused of arms smuggling, and Yannis Tsekouras, once a prominent Pak man.
As if a government bristling with arms was simply letting the natural order of things play out.
Under some liberal theories, this would allow the president to put some measures of the new arms treaty into effect by executive order.
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First Congress had a sergeant at arms who was there to keep order, but also a doorkeeper to make sure that people wouldn't come in and out.
Also on Thursday, European countries moved to abandon, for now, a proposal to order member states to stop and search suspected arms shipments to Syria, diplomats said.
" Lilyea, who fought in the 1991 Persian Gulf war, said he believes physical standards will be relaxed "in order to force the acceptance of women in the combat arms specialties.
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And a sergeant at arms but also the doorkeeper were there to keep order.
Following the end of World War II, President Truman issued an Executive Order to standardize the Presidential Seal, and the Coat of Arms was modified so that the eagle faces to its right, the direction of honor, and also toward the olive branch, a symbol of peace, rather than toward the arrows which represent war.
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The continued insecurity due to the presence of armed groups and the proliferation of arms as well as a general break down of law and order have lead to massive poaching.
There is too much of an hypocricy in the notion by the Europeans and Americans posturing as peacemakers, and continually promoting overtly and covertly bog arms deals in parts of the world where disarmament ought to be the order of the day.
Very oddly, the ATF encouraged arms sales to criminals in the hope that the guns would reach Mexico in order to essentially strengthen cases against Mexican drug cartels.
Echoing that mission, organizations like The Girl Effect, whose aim is to educate, empower and mobilize girls worldwide, are springing up like white flags asking us to pause, throw down our arms and invite ourselves to the worldwide political and economic bargaining table create a new world order.
Now, in the aftermath of the ministerial discussions in the Tetons, the USSR is demanding that a side agreement be reached that would permit the Soviet Union to abandon the treaty reducing strategic arms should the United States choose to withdraw from or to violate the 1972 ABM Treaty in order to deploy significant defenses.
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They boast more arms than the IRA ever had, and have filled the void left as McGuinness and the social order the IRA enforced fade into the past.
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