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UN Body Urges Support for Treaty Regulating Private Military, Security Companies

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–30 April 2010 – A United Nations expert body is urging broad support for the creation of a new global treaty to regulate the activities of private military and security contractors, stressing the need for strict control mechanisms for this “highly specific and dangerous trade.”

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The five-member UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries, created in 2005, is currently drafting a possible new legally binding instrument that aims to set minimum global…

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