Trump announced that he was withdrawing the United States. of the United Nations Arms Trade Agreement – Telam

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US President Donald Trump announced that he would revoke his country's status as a signatory to the Treaty on the Trade in Conventional Arms, signed by more than 100 countries and regulating global trade in goods. weapons, ammunition and aircraft or combat ships.

"The UN will soon receive official notification that the US rejects this treaty," signed in 2013 but never ratified in the country, said Trump during a speech at the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association (NRA), the main group of pressure in favor of possession of weapons, according to the news agency EFE.

Then, the president signed a document in which, he explained, he had asked the Senate "to halt the process of ratification of the treaty" and to send it "to the oval office", where he had promised to "get rid of it".

The United States signed this United Nations treaty in 2013, under the government of Democrat Barack Obama, but the US Congress never ratified it. It has not come into force in the country, as in a hundred countries. of 2014.

This treaty threatens your rights. Under my administration, we will never give up American sovereignty to anyone"

Donald Trump