PM urges UN to ratify arms treaty

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The death of T&T scholarship winner Ravindra Ramrattan during the recent terrorist attack at a mall in Kenya was another example of the consequences of the illicit arms flow across borders, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar told the United Nations General Assembly yesterday. Persad-Bissessar spoke about Ramrattan’s death as she urged world leaders to ratify the UN’s small arms treaty during her address to leaders at the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Ramrattan, a President’s Medal winner, had been working for the World Bank in Nairobi since 2011. He was among  an estimated 72 people killed when members of the Somalia-based al Qaeda affiliate Al Shabaab group stormed the Westgate Mall in Nairobi. Some 175 people were also wounded during the attack. Victims also hailed from the UK, France, India, Ghana, Australia, China, Peru and New Zealand.