1. Arms transfers from foreign governments urgently need to be restricted. 2. According to top administration officials, that would trigger arms transfers to the Bosnians and any necessary training, but not by the United States. 3. China and the Czech Republic also expressed reservations about arms transfers but voted for the resolution. 4. Cavallo signed several of the decrees authorizing the arms transfers when he served in the Menem government as foreign minister and economy minister. 5. Croatia then allowed Iran and other Islamic countries to substantially increase what had been a steady trickle of arms transfers. 6. For years foreign governments have fueled human rights abuses through prolific arms transfers. 7. Indeed, we must settle at nothing less than a comprehensive, international effort to regulate and monitor arms transfers. 8. It would bar arms transfers to countries that did not meet a set of standards on democracy, human rights and international conduct. 9. It would require the president to make an annual list of countries eligible for American arms transfers, using several different tests of democracy and nonaggression. 10. No heat would have forced Justice to look into illegal Asian campaign contributions and their influence on arms transfers. |