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 to the risks it presents to civilians, mine clearance and humanitarian aid teams. The Parliament is hoping for negotiations to begin on reaching an international agreement on the regulation, limiting and banning of production and use of fragmentation bombs, which would also include the transporting of fragmentation bomb ammunition. These aspects, as well as fragmentation bombs dropped by parachute and other rocket-launched or missile-borne arms, are already included in the 1980 Convention. The Parliament stressed that fragmentation weapons system users should be responsible for cleaning up zones affected by fragmentation bombs. It also called on all Member States that possessed or uses these kinds of weapons to take additional measures to improve the reliability of detonation mechanisms by using duel detonators and self-destruct and neutralisation mechanisms, which would reduce the dangers these weapons posed to civilians.