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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10193
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/arms

EU wants more progress in fight against cluster munitions

Brussels, 02/08/2010 (Agence Europe) - The entry into force, on Sunday 1 August, of the Oslo Convention on Cluster Munitions marks an essential step forward for international humanitarian law, but the European Union hopes that more countries will move to ratify it. The Convention was signed by 107 countries and 37 have ratified it. Nonetheless, great military powers such as China, Russia, the US and Israel, which own most of the world's cluster munitions, have today refused to ban the use of...