And as Venezuela’s official election campaign gets underway. The interim President Nicolas Maduro has visited the house where the late President Hugo Chavez was born. Mr. Maduro met relatives and supporters of Mr. Chavez in his hometown and vowed to continue his social reform program. The election on April 14th will choose a replacement for Mr. Chavez who was in office for 14 years and died a month ago.
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[00:01.70]BBC News with Nick Kelly.
[00:03.46]The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved the first-ever international treaty to regulate the multibillion-dollar arms trade.
[00:10.88]It sets new standards for the export of conventional weapons from clash nicos to battle tanks.
[00:16.84]Countries will have to report arms sales and assess whether they could be used to abuse human rights.
[00:22.29]The Australian ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva Peter Woolcott cheered the negotiations.
[00:27.99]“The arms trade treaty will set new international standards as well as be a forum to transparency and accountability in the conventional arms trade.
[00:35.93]So it will stop arms trade in transfer irresponsibly and illegally in order that they might commit atrocities in human rights violations and violations of humanitarian law.