CLUSTER MUNITIONS: GOVERNMENTS TO DISCUSS NEW TREATY

US Fed News Service, Including US State News | February 20, 2007 | Copyright

Human Rights Watch issued the following news release:

Governments meeting in Oslo to launch a historic initiative to ban cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians should agree to conclude a new treaty by 2008, Human Rights Watch said today. More than 40 countries are expected to attend the Oslo Conference on Cluster Munitions on February 22-23.

"No conventional weapon poses greater danger to civilians today than cluster munitions," said Steve Goose, director of the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch. "Governments should act with an urgency that matches this threat and ...

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