Amnesty aims for last post on arms

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL aims to have more than 50,000 postcards from around Europe land on Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s desk by May 1 to try and get him to push for tighter control of the arms trade during the EU presidency.

Anne Marlborough, EU presidency officer with the Irish section of Amnesty International, believes the postcard campaign will highlight the depth of feeling across Europe about the poor control of arms sales and the manufacture of weapons components by individual states.

Ten countries will join the EU on May 1 and Ms Marlborough believes this is the perfect time for Europeans to show their contempt at the growing arms trade.