LatinNews Daily - 28 June 2018

*Brazil’s President Michel Temer has announced that the country has formally ratified the 2013 Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). The ATT seeks to regulate the international trade in conventional weapons to ensure that they are not used to increase human suffering by promoting the responsible trade of conventional weapons by signatory states. The treaty came into effect in 2014 after it was ratified by 94 states. But although Brazil signed the treaty in 2013 it had not been ratified by its legislature until February and yesterday President Temer announced that it had been signed into law. Temer said that the ratification of the treaty, which obliges states to introduce tighter controls on the sale of weapons and military equipment to other countries, would help to strengthen public security and prevent human rights violations around the world. Brazil is Latin America’s largest weapons exporter and the 24^th-largest weapons exporter in the world, accounting for 0.3% of the total arms trade.

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