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Arms Sales to the Third World

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This is a paper on Arms ***** to ***** Third *****. Discussing the top seven arms sellers to the Third World and who the major buyers are. France and Russia follow the U.S.; but China's sales was around US$2.7 billions in 1999 dropped to $400 millions last year with Pakistan remaining a ***** buyer.

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***** global arms business is on the upswing again ***** the United States, as has been the case many times in the past, accounts for nearly 50 per cent of the sales to develop*****g countries. The New York Times, in a Congression*****l Research Service Report that was highlighted states that the international ***** sales grew by eight per ***** in 2000 to nearly $40 billions and ***** U.S. contracted for about $18.6 ***** of it. The U.S. sales increased by about $6 billions between 1999 and 2000 thanks to a large extent by the contact ***** sell 80 F-16 jets to the Un*****ed Arab Emirates, a deal that is put at around $6.4 *****. France and Russia ***** the U.S.; but China's sales ***** around *****$2.7 billions in 1999 dropped to $***** millions last year with Pak*****tan ***** a m*****jor buyer.

Between 1997 and *****, ***** had agreed to sell Iran some US$300 ***** in weapons measured in constant 2000 dollars. Russia agreed to sell Iran some US$300 million in weapons, but during the same period Russia delivered Iran ***** US$800 millions in arms and ***** late 2000 Moscow served notice, despite objections from Washington, that additional major ***** to Teheran were being pursued. (William W. Keller & Janne E. Nolan, The ***** Trade: Business As Usual?. Vol. 109, Foreign Policy, 12-01-1997).

***** the end of the Gulf War in 1991, Iraq was a major buyer of Russian weapons, but this is no longer the case. India ***** China ***** ********** ***** principal clients ***** Russia and the point is that as Moscow enters into joint production deals with the two countries, eventually there would be the drop in purc*****es from Russia as domestic ***** in the ***** countries start.

The patterns of arms sales by Russia and China are not the only challenges for the Republican administration. Domestically, it sets off a larger debate and criticism in ***** quarters, on the *****e hand the U.S. goes about telling the developing world about the need to come to grips ***** peace and developmental imperatives; it unle*****hes its manufacturing sectors to keep nations in conflict. (Rimanelli, Marco, East-West arms control and the fall of ***** USSR, 1967-1994: radical change or expedient accommodation? Vol. 29, East European Quarterly, 06-22-1995).

Arms transfers can and do upset military balances, but they can rarely create or susta***** them. Hist*****y and logic combine to demonstrate time and again ***** one nation's balance is another's threat. ***** after war in the Middle East and Persian Gulf has followed one arms import frenzy after another.