According to foreign media reports, on the 26th local time, U.S. President trump delivered a speech at the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association (NRA), announcing that the U.S. government will no longer support the arms trade treaty? Is the United States going to be the enemy of the whole world?
Trump said: 'I officially announced today that the United States will overturn the validity of this seriously misguided treaty signed by the United States, and we will withdraw our signature. He said the UN would soon receive a formal U.S. refusal.
The arms trade treaty is a common international standard set by the United Nations to regulate the international trade of eight categories of conventional weapons, which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on April 2, 2013.
The arms trade treaty is promoted by the developing countries, especially the war-torn countries. After the entry into force of the treaty, it can play a very good role in controlling the flow of weapons into war-torn areas [4]. ICRC believes that the universal availability of weapons contributes to violations of international humanitarian law and hinders the provision of assistance to victims. An important purpose of the arms trade treaty is to reduce casualties caused by inadequate constraints on the availability of weapons by implementing more binding and responsible control provisions on conventional arms transfers.
The reason why the United States now announces its withdrawal is that it feels that this treaty has restricted its own development. The United States is a big weapon country, and compliance with this treaty will restrict its arms export and harm its export trade economy. Now the United States is still bent on defending its hegemonism, and weapons are its important mace. How can it watch the United nations deprive them of their power.