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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8819

3 November 2004
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THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/human rights
MEPs call for moratorium on fragmentation munitions

Strasbourg, 02/11/2004 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday in Strasbourg, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on fragmentation bombs which calls for an "immediate moratorium on use, supply, production, transfer and export of cluster bombs, until there an international agreement has been negotiated". Some member states like Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and Belgium are still producing these weapons. Parliament is "encouraging all countries (including Poland and Latvia),...

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