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/ 29 June 2006

Illicit global arms trade still flourishes

As the <i>2006 Small-Arms Survey</i> was being circulated at the United Nations on Monday, Secretary General Kofi Annan accepted a photo petition from one million people worldwide calling for tougher controls over the global arms trade. The simultaneous circulation of the survey, by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies, and the Million Faces Petition was not a coincidence.