Hindu : 8 Apr - Editorial : A treaty with Gaping Holes

Arms trade treaty, something which very few of us are aware and especially least interesting topic to understand. This article talks on how the present treaty has been amended to favor the western arm suppliers. It starts off with how a treaty most important as this which can control terrorism is being misused by top players to make sure that their business is unaffected with such amendments. the new article in it says that weapons cannot be exported or imported if it is know that those weapons shall be used for terrorist activities but that do not clarify on who should judge whether its a terrorist activity or not so that leave an open question and an exception that weapons can be traded as a gift between countries. Also it had also been observed that it wouldn't be against the treaty if the trade is between a country to a militia of another country as the treat hold only good if the deal id between two recognized countries.

Though India did not put it's vote to the latest article added or modified in the treaty along with china and brazil, its the big suppliers from the west who had this treaty go in their way and now it seems impossible for stopping arms trade that can root deep into terrorism. however the article suggests that now that India knows the secret behind creating such intentional loop holes in the treaty, She should be careful in doing arm deal for the defenses and specially should not continue or even think of having deals with those countries who were to readily benefit from these loop holes.

                                                                                                      - Vamshi Regalla