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The National Security Council has passed a vote of confidence on the current strategy adopted by security forces to tackle insecurity.

The national security council (NSC) says the National Taskforce on Prohibition of Illegal, Importation/Smuggling of Arms, Ammunition, Light Weapons, Chemical Weapons and Pipeline Vandalism (NATFORCE) is illegal.

Congress should continue its opposition to the ATT and ensure that the U.S. is not pulled into compliance with it as the activists desire.

In the last two weeks of June, the United Nations held another review conference on its efforts to counter what it considers illicit dealing in small arms. The U.S. played the game well. But unfortunately, you can’t beat a cheater. In theory, this U.N. program might be a modestly useful way to promote cooperation against the illicit international trade in small arms. In practice, as even the world body has agreed, it does nothing very useful, mostly because most nations at the U.N. are too inc...

Demining operations conducted by the National Centre for Peacekeeping Forces (NPMEC) in Tboung Khum saw the discovery of more than 1,000 landmines and other UXOs.

Geneva, Switzerland, Monday 6 September 2021. A week of intensive meetings of the Seventh Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), chaired by Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Switzerland and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland, Ambassador Lansana Gberie, as President, ended with all key initiatives

On April 26, 2019, President Donald Trump announced that he would remove the U.S. signature, affixed by then-Secretary of State John Kerry in September 2013, from the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). Known as an “unsigning,” this act would prevent the ATT, which has failed in its purported effort to prevent irresponsible international arms transfers, from having any legal effect or standing in the United States.

The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian is the longest running daily newspaper in the country, marking its centenary in 2017. The paper started life as the Trinidad Guardian on Sunday 2nd September 1917 by the newly formed Trinidad Publishing Company Limited.

He assured that the NCCSALW remained committed to its duties and focused on delivering its mandate of ensuring an illicit arms-free Nigeria.

Mr Hassan said the weapons and ammunition were recovered during various operations by troops of Operation Delta Safe in the Niger Delta.