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First country to sign arms protocol

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    Mali became the first country to sign a legally binding international pact to control the proliferation of small arms, the UN reported in New York on Wednesday. Mali, followed by Brazil, signed the Protocol Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition. The protocol, which supplements the UN Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime, was agreed on 2 March in Vienna and will enter into force after 40 countries have ratified it, the UN said.

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