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Dr. Ted R. Bromund, The United Nations will soon receive a formal notice that America is rejecting this treaty.
Dr. Ted R. Bromund, is the Margaret Thatcher senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Trump Just Ditched a UN Arms Treaty, and He Was Right to Do It. On Friday, at the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association, President Donald Trump announced that he was un-signing the Arms Trade Treaty. As he put it,
“The United Nations will soon receive a formal notice that America is rejecting this treaty.”He then pulled out a pen and, in front of the entire audience, signed a message asking the Senate to end its consideration of the treaty.
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