oxfam is part of a large coalition working towards lobbying governments to deliver a very strong arms trade treaty and one of the key elements of the arms trade treaty is this question of transparency because frankly at the moment no countries compelled to report any of their dealings the un register happens to be a voluntary mechanism and there are no global architecture that compels countries or obligates countries to respond to and provide open and transparent information about their procurement and indeed their exports and their shipments of arms and this hopefully will be one of the benchmarks of the arms trade treaty which will ensure that countries have an idea that they have is that there's a certain set of rules and responsibilities that they all must adhere to and actually that comes back to your question because if everybody knows what everybody has then that certainly reduces the myth of of the sort of insecurity that gets perpetuated by lack of information with this new treaty involve also private companies that export weapons to systems to countries and not just governments. well at

new york governments are going to meet once more to slash the tails for a new legally binding arms trade treaty now i think the lessons of what's happened in the middle east and north africa over recent weeks need to be learned and governments really need to commit to a treaty that's very very tough on rules that stop weapons sales in these kind of situations your organization is calling for a total arms embargo to libya but what we've witnessed the last few days again that's a bit late isn't it well this is this is entirely the point in this is the message that we would say this is why we need this is a treaty that's based on very strong international rules because the vehicles that we've identified that appear to have been identified from from the youtube footage should never have been sold in the first place and it was just amnesty saying now an influential u.k. parliamentary committee was very critical of that decision back in two thousand and eight. thanks for being on the line with us over sprog from amnesty international speciated. you're watching our team from moscow stay with us for co

trade organization and the russia partnership agreement is also on the table. the u.s. says it's ready to start new talks with russia on further nuclear arms cuts earlier this month a key new treaty the new start between the two countries came into force which will see both sides slash their arsenals by a third former u.s. national security advisor brant scowcroft told r.t. that the deal is a way to make sure nuclear weapons are never used. both sides have ratified the new start treaty and that is. a major step forward what it really does is that continue the framework that we've built up really over fifty years of how to talk and how to deal with the military nuclear issue that if it continues that process and now we can look at ways we still possess over ninety percent of the world's nuclear weapons so we need to work together to ensure that those weapons are never never need be you and that is to increase the stability of the nuclear bomb so whatever the problem between a story is no incentive to use a month i think now the way is clear for us to sit down and have that comment there's still there's so many nuclear weapons out there but just not just a matter of numbers it's do

trade policy arm in which we raise these issues about opening up the economy for more. sabia case. we are also looking to perhaps get and yet to sign a bilateral investment treaty, which removes those caps, notably in insurance, but liberalized markets across the board. there's great opportunity for americans in the retail and agriculture and manufacturing sector. some of this we try to address if we can get the right balance in the doha round. the rest we will continue to see if we can't find the right buttons to push and i bilateral engagement. >> my time is right now. i think the chairman. i do have additional questions i will admit to the ambassador. especially as it pertains. >> thank you. mr. lee is recognized. >> mr. chairman and mr. ambassador, i walked on this too long, but it's worth repeating that is the issue of jobs here and we are sitting on 9% unemployment again. what i think congress could such a bad name is we don't listen to the american people. i think a virtue pretty loud and clear and also even ranking number 11 when he was in colombia. and colombia we made improvements in your belief is all three of these trade agreements will create jobs