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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8115

17 December 2001
Contents Publication in full By article 12 / 44
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/weapons
Parliament demands international moratorium on fragmentation bombs

Strasbourg, 17/12/2001 (Agence Europe) - At the end of their emergency debate, four political groups at the European Parliament: Socialists; Liberals, Greens, Regionalists and Unitary Left adopted a resolution calling on the High Contracting Parties of the 1980 United Nations Convention to ban and limit certain weapons which can produce excessive traumatic effects or target people indiscriminately. The resolution also called for an immediate moratorium on the use of fragmentation bombs, due...

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