Arms Trade Treaty: Far from perfect, but better than nothing

... to approve the Arms Trade Treaty. What does it mean in the legal context that the treaty that could not be agreed on at the UN Conference and was adopted by the UN General Assembly? The original intention that the final text would be adopted at the UN Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty by everybody agreeing without a vote was not possible because a number of states in the end said very clearly that they would not be prepared to accept it. The only sensible option, therefore, was to put it to the General Assembly and ...