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BC backs down from hosting conference, organizers working to move event

By Gaveliers, The Gavel Media Team, on April 6, 2010 11:46 PM

Update: The event organizers are working on finding a new location for the conference.

The Boston College administration has cancelled the plans to host the Boston Intersessional Exercise on the Arms Trade Treaty, which was scheduled to be on campus from June 1 to 3. The conference was to be an informal intergovernmental meeting, and many diplomats were scheduled to attend. It was co-sponsored by the governments of United States, Luxembourg, Austria, and Australia.

Over Easter break, the State Department and United Nations officials wrote to BC, urging the administration not to cancel the event.