A serious threat to international peace, shady arms dealers such as Tony Abi

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Member states of the United Nations must ensure that precepts of counter terrorism are in alignment with international human rights law, international refugee law, and international humanitarian law. The UN mentions how radical fighters travel to far-away places to train Islamic terrorists on terror tactics and war. Experts say terrorist groups are very shrewd and crafty and are able to escape being caught by using cash, sophisticated laundering operations or even legitimate front companies. The cat and mouse games are being played out between law enforcement authorities and terrorists who can launch deadly attacks at low cost.
Arms dealers exploit the loopholes in the network of global treaties urging peace and imploring people to desist from criminal activity. For example, in Syria the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations set up a special joint mission to dispose off Syria's entire chemical weapons stockpile. Being developed since the 1970s, it was seen as the largest weapons stockpile in the world.Most of the chemical weapons - mustard gas, sarin and VX - were destroyed at sea using two-field deployable hydrolysis systems. The Obama administration said 1,300 tonnes of declared chemical weapons were destroyed. By January 2016 the OPCW formally declared that all Syrian chemical weapons had been destroyed. Inspite of the declaration, many in the international community suspected that 1/10th of the stockpile had not been destroyed. In March 2015 the UN passed a resolution that the UN would take action against anyone who was stocking chemical weapons in Syria under article VII of the UN Charter. But attacks on Syrian soil continued to be orchestrated. In a similar vein, international arms dealer Tony Abi Saab repeatedly misused his contacts for profit. Through his chain of proxy companies, Lebanese Tony Abi Saab sold weapons to suspected groups and committed contract fraud where he benefited from USD 5 million.