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

by Gary Kopycinski on April 30, 2010

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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.”