The first public meeting of the Arms and the Covenant Movement was on 3 December.

The international community has made effective efforts to prevent the weaponization of and an arms race in outer space.

The CD has unique expertise on the prevention of weaponization and an arms race in outer space.

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The US claims that it helps the world fight poverty, but instead spends its money on weapons.

After NASA In 1987, Ride left her position in Washington, D.C., to work at the Stanford University Center for International Security and Arms Control.

If a guided missile crashes prior to arming, then the warhead may or may not experience an energetic reaction on impact.

This week, on war and violence, Gabriel Toueg makes a comparison between Angola, Brazil and Israel, concerning both legal and illegal armament.

Recalling that the Charter of the United Nations envisages the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion for armaments of the world's human and economic resources,

Recalling that the Charter of the United Nations envisages the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion for armaments of the world's human and economic resources,

Egypt spends billions on armament, not for war you smart people but to fend off an attack from the public!!

The first effort at international arms limitation was made at the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907, which had failed in their primary objective.

And could Russia, given its rearmament policy, be planning to set up underwater missile launch sites?

The primary purpose of this increased spending is to push new weapons systems from the research and development stage to actual procurement for Russia s armed forces.

During the Iran Iraq War, Iraq received large quantities of weapons and other material useful to the development of armaments and weapons of mass destruction.

The Iraq Survey Group also reported that Iraq had not adequately explained and accounted for its VX production and weaponization.

They cited instances of inappropriate development of sites as tourist attractions, for mining and exploitation of natural resources, as well as militarization, including as a base for the militarization of outer space.

Such weaponization, we believe, can undermine the international consensus since 1967 on the peaceful uses of outer space and start an arms race in outer space.

Sadr s militia threatens to quickly become Iraq s answer to Hezbollah a well armed, politically connected private army with its own foreign policy.

Just a week before the indictment, seven African Union and UN peacekeepers were killed and 22 injured during an ambush by well armed militiamen.

Instead of spending money on armaments, as Chávez has done, Rosales plans to redistribute 20 of Venezuela s national oil revenue directly to citizens in the lowest income groups.

A Weapon Systems Officer ( WSO , pronounced wizzo ) is an air flight officer directly involved in all air operations and weapon systems of a military aircraft.

Their support has also exacerbated the level of tension between the two sides, leading to increased militarization and the threat of widespread violence in central and southern Somalia.

The threats concentrated in the Middle East are diverse regional conflicts, totalitarian religious ideologies, terrorism, nuclear armament programs, blockades to modernization, unstable regimes and hegemonic ambitions.

For years human rights activists and scholars suspected the obvious the emergence of an enormous, vicious, well armed, and well trained parallel army to fight the guerillas was not some spontaneous act.

Across the northern part of Sub Saharan Africa, there are now huge challenges from well armed and well financed terrorist groups that have imported toxic Islamist ideology from the Middle East.

As a result, Hezbollah is no longer the widely popular movement that it once was across the Arab and Muslim worlds, but it remains a highly effective and heavily armed force.

True, armaments costs have risen sharply, but only because Putin s KGB friends, who monopolize weapons production, have stolen inordinate amounts.

The Conference, which included the original five nuclear weapon states (the United States, Russia, China, France, and Great Britain) as well as a great number of other UN members, did not reach consensus on a Final Declaration.

In addition to the US, it is part of the armament of the air force of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates.

At the same time, Canada appreciates that measures other than a weaponization ban can also enhance space security and that the broad range of elements included in a space security concept can be addressed in many different forums.

If some form of self destruct system is fitted to all guided missiles, the self destruct system could possibly endanger the firer if it is able to function prior to the missile achieving the usual safe arming distance.

My delegation would in fact argue that there is a need for ever increasing common endeavours among all member States to prevent weaponization, so as to preserve space as a sanctuary for peaceful purposes for the benefit of all peoples.

By 1938, the Treasury was losing its fight to stop rearmament politicians and the public were more afraid of being caught unprepared for war with Germany and Japan than of a major financial crisis in the more distant future.

Nowadays, however, the SCO is often used as a forum to campaign against supposed American unilateralism and to provide a united front especially between China and Russia against the US with respect to security and arms reduction issues in the region.

As for North Korea, Obama and Hu will agree on the importance of bringing the regime back to the Six Party Talks and affirming its commitments to denuclearize, and the summit communiqué will emphasize this common stance.

On September 2, the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail reported on recent negotiations between the embattled Qaddafi regime and Chinese armaments companies with direct ties to China s government for contracts worth 200 million.

Mindful of the provisions of Article 11, paragraph 1, of the Charter of the United Nations stipulating that a function of the General Assembly is to consider the general principles of cooperation in the maintenance of international peace and security, including the principles governing disarmament and arms limitation,

Last month, it added five companies (four in China, and another in the US but representing a Chinese outfit) to its list of those fingered for assisting Iran's weapons program and thus banned from doing business with American companies.

A woman at the Addis Ababa summit might have asked those calling for war, for example, to explain how, given their failure to control poorly armed militias in Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, and elsewhere, they planned to defeat Gbagbo.

Moreover, under the 2004 amendment to the Criminal Code effective from 1 August 2004, illegal arming and trafficking in arms was established as a new type of criminal offence its wording is attached as annex to this Report.

There remains outstanding issues demanding further studies and discussions such as a clear and authoritative definition on weaponization' and reversible permanent damages', and on the specifics for establishing a verification regime either under the UNGA or at the CD.

In this context, it is our belief that we, as members of the international community, cannot allow outer space to become the next battleground. In our view this is exactly what would happen if we do not prevent such weaponization by measures that would ban weapons in outer space.

The primary purpose of this increased spending is to push new weapons systems from the research and development stage to actual procurement for Russia s armed forces. Over the course of 2007 2015, Russia s army and navy will replace almost half (45 ) of their military equipment.