Sentence examples for trafficking of weapons from inspiring English sources

boundaries," said a senior defense official traveling with Gates, pointing to the movement of fighters and the trafficking of weapons and drugs across provincial lines.

It is aimed at stopping illegal trafficking of weapons, including small arms such as the AK-47 assault rifle, from pouring into conflict zones and fuelling wars and atrocities.

With Noriega in power, Panama's Canal, its maritime flag of convenience, and its see-no-evil offshore-banking system made the country the ideal regional hub for the trafficking of weapons, money, and intelligence.

"So far, India's been a bystander" on the spread of nuclear weapons, Mr. Cohen says, "running away from any larger arms-control agenda" by refusing to join efforts to stop trafficking of weapons materials.

The Malaysian government signed on to the Proliferation Security Initiative, a global effort aimed at curbing the trafficking of weapons of mass destruction, which it had resisted embracing for more than a decade.

Speaking to the opening session of a conference on the trafficking of weapons that fuel increasingly brutal civil wars and expanding networks of organized crime, John R. Bolton, under secretary of state for arms control and international security affairs, invoked the Second Amendment.

In the Sahel, A.Q.I.M. seems to have won some support from local Tuareg tribes, Mr. Porter said, through cooperation in illicit traffic of weapons, drugs, cigarettes and especially hostages.

Although the cartels "are the largest consumer of illegal firearms in Mexico," the cable says, "they are not the primary trafficking agents of weapons going south from the United States".

The technology could "block any unintended access to weapons in the home, could prevent accidental deaths from mishandled weapons, eliminate the possibility of officers being killed by their own weapon, and potentially reduce the trafficking of stolen weapons," says panel member Donald Sebastian, a chemical engineer at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark.

Hermant has been held in custody since January, accused of the trafficking of decommissioned weapons.

The strategy has yielded mixed results in the struggle to curtail illegal trafficking of drugs, weapons, money and people.