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100 countries sign cluster-bomb ban
A landmark treaty banning the use of cluster bombs has been signed by some 100 countries, although big military powers including the USA, Russia and China were absent from the signing in Oslo, Norway.
AFP — Some 100 countries on Wednesday started signing a landmark treaty banning cluster bombs, which has been boycotted by major producers like China, Russia and the United States.
"The world is a safer place today. This is the biggest humanitarian treaty of the last decade," Richard Moyes of the Cluster Munitions Coalition (CMC), an umbrella group of some 300 non-governmental organisations, told AFP.
Norway, which played a key role in hammering out the agreement outlawing the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions, was the first country to sign the treaty.
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Casualties of Peace
40% of the injuries and deaths from cluster bombs occur among children AFTER THE CESSATION OF ARMED COMBAT! Are these WMD's really necessary? When will the world's plaground bullies grow-up?
convention on cluster bombs
Recently I was vere interested in that kind of weapons, thay are deadly kind of weapons, and produce lot of external harrasment to civilians. Funny thing is that Poland is out for convention, just do not agree to sign it, as a token of civilisation progress. Funny, no rather sad.