UN conference began with a scandal

On the opening day of the conference participants met pickets of international human rights organization Amnesty International. A few days before the Forum activists handed over to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on a petition demanding that set strict limits on the arms trade. "Every year the world produced by two bullets in each of the inhabitants of the planet, and nobody knows where they eventually will," - said the

coordinator of the organization, Brian Wood. The letter put the signature Keira Knightley, Yoko Ono, Scarlett Johansson, Tim Roth, Kevin Spacey, Annie Lennox and other actors, musicians and public figures.

Experts' forecasts were justified on the first day of the conference. The Delegation of Palestine, participating in the forum as an observer, tried to take their seats in the General Assembly intended only for the States Parties to the international organization. This move was supported by representatives of the Arab states, Palestine demanded a status of full participant. Attempts to extinguish the organizers of a scandal erupted in what way and failed, and the delegations of several states demonstratively left the hall.