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The United States Should Withdraw from the U.N.’s Programme of Action on Small Arms Ted R. Bromund, PhDThe 2018 meeting of the U.N. Programme of Action (PoA) on the illicit trade in small arms broke both a U.S. red line and the PoA’s principle of unanimity. As its achievements are limited at best the only reason for the U.S. to participate in the PoA was to prevent it from making bad decisions and binding U.S. policy. Now that the PoA has abandoned unanimity, the U.S. should withdraw from, and discontinue any aid through, the PoA.

Cyber resilience: Efforts to elevate complex issues like climate change could provide pointers for inspiring urgency on cybersecurity.

The goal of the U.S. at BMS6 is simple: Make sure that nothing happens, because if anything does happen, it is unlikely to be good.

In 2001, the United Nations created the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat, and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (PoA). The PoA is not a treaty. Rather, it is a political mechanism for encouraging voluntary cooperation.

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An Iranian diplomat at the UN described outer space as humanity's common heritage that must be used for peaceful purposes and the benefit of all countries, regardless of their economic or technological progress.