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Slideshow U.N. chief pleads for arms pact, Palestinians demand seat Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Ban Ki-moon pleads for arms pact, Palestinians demand seat Tue, Jul 3 2012 Syria strikes Damascus suburb; U.N. decries arms flow Mon, Jul 2 2012 Yitzhak Shamir, hawkish Israeli premier, dies Sat, Jun 30 2012 Russia-America tussle over Syria evokes Cold War Wed, Jun 13 2012 Analysis & Opinion Palestinians seek UN funds, heritage status for Bethlehem Nativity Church Split wouldn’t fix all News Corp’s shortcomings Related Topics World » United Nations » Israel » U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) speaks with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon before a dinner hosted by the Swiss authorities after a meeting of the Action Group for Syria at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva June 30, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Laurent Gillieroni/Pool By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS | Tue Jul 3, 2012 10:03pm EDT UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pleaded on Tuesday for a binding pact to regulate the more than $60 billion global weapons market, while delegates at a treaty drafting conference worked to defuse a dispute over Palestinian participation. "We do not have a multilateral treaty of global scope dealing with conventional arms," Ban told delegates to the conference, which runs through July 27. "This is a disgrace." "Poorly regulated international arms transfers are fueling civil conflicts, destabilizing regions, and empowering terrorists and criminal networks," he said. Arms control campaigners say one person every minute dies from armed violence around the world and that a convention is needed to prevent illicitly traded guns from pouring into conflict zones and fueling wars and atrocities. They say conflicts in Syria and elsewhere show a treaty is necessary. If the campaigners get their way, all signatories would be charged with enforcing compliance with any treaty by arms producers and with taking steps to prevent rogue dealers from operating within their borders. They would have to consider nations' human rights records when deciding whether to export arms. "Our common goal is clear," Ban said. "A robust and legally binding arms trade treaty that will have a real impact on the lives of those millions of people suffering from the consequences of armed conflict, repression and armed violence." "It is ambitious, but I believe it is achievable," he said. There are deep divisions on several issues to be tackled in the treaty negotiations, such as whether human rights should be a mandatory criterion for determining whether governments should permit weapons exports to specific countries. PALESTINIAN DISPUTE A dispute over whether the Palestinians should participate in the conference as an observer without voting rights - the status they have in the U.N. General Assembly - or as a state party with voting rights delayed the start of the conference by more than a day before it was resolved, delegates said. The Palestinian Authority's permanent observer to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, told reporters that since the arms trade treaty negotiations are what he called "an international conference of states," the Palestinians should be a full participant. Last year the Palestinian Authority successfully obtained membership as a state party to the U.N. scientific and cultural agency UNESCO, which infuriated the United States and Israel. Because of Palestine's recognition as a state by UNESCO, Mansour said, it should have the same status at the arms treaty talks. The U.N. Arab Group's insistence that the Palestinians have full participation as a state caused the United States and Israel to threaten to leave the conference, delegates said. "Without the United States, the world's biggest arms supplier, it would be hard to get a meaningful treaty out of this conference," a Latin American diplomat told Reuters on condition of anonymity. Israel is also a major arms supplier. In the end, the Palestinians and the Vatican delegation, which also wanted full participation rights, reluctantly accepted the right to sit at the front of the negotiating hall next to Argentina, but without the right to participate as states with voting rights in the consensus-based talks. The U.S. delegation was "pleased that a solution agreeable to all parties was reached that would allow the negotiations on the Arms Trade Treaty to begin," said Kurtis Cooper, a spokesman for the U.S. mission. "It is regrettable, however, that the limited time available to negotiate this treaty was reduced pending resolution of this unrelated issue." One of the reasons this month's negotiations are taking place is that the United States, the world's biggest arms trader accounting for over 40 percent of global conventional arms transfers, reversed U.S. policy on the issue after Barack Obama became president and decided in 2009 to support a treaty. However, U.S. officials say Washington insisted in February on having the ability to "veto a weak treaty" during this month's talks, if necessary. It also seeks to protect U.S. domestic rights to bear arms - a sensitive issue in the United States. The other five top arms suppliers are Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia. 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