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AAGM: Arms Bill 'Aimed At Ensuring Secrecy'.
(From Cape Argus (South Africa): AAGM)
Byline: Michael Morris
A new arms row is looming over just how much South Africans should be allowed to know about who we sell weapons to, and what we sell.
The prospect of more secrecy and less oversight over South Africa's lucrative arms trade has been highlighted by the Coalition for Defence Alternatives.
The coalition says the new National Conventional Arms Control Bill discussed by parliament's portfolio committee on defence yesterday would wrap arms sales in greater secrecy and make it harder for MPs and civil society to keep tabs on them.
The Bill gives the National Conventional Arms Control Committee - a Cabinet committee established in 1995 - authority to regulate the arms trade.
But, the coalition points out, while the portfolio committee agreed in the last session that parliament should be empowered to review and comment on prospective sales before export permits were issued by the cabinet arms control committee, the Defence Secretariat yesterday "asked that this clause be scrapped, which would mean that legislators would only learn about arms exports after they could no longer be stopped".
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