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Brokers Without Borders: How Illicit Arms Brokers Can Slip Through Gaps in The Pacific and International Arms Control System by Oxfam is a document available to read on EtoBox.

On 11 December 2009 a 35 ton cache of conventional weapons left North Korea bound for Iran. The following day the arms were intercepted and seized by authorities in Thailand. In an unexpected twist it was soon discovered that the plane chartered to carry out this illegal transfer was leased by a New Zealand registered shell company. To date those who arranged the transfer have not been held accountable. The case demonstrates that the existing international arms control system is not adequately combating ill

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Oxfam

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EN