10/11/2006 (Agence Europe) - MEP Caroline Lucas has written to EU Heads of State and Government and to the European Commission on the subject of the allegations currently being examined by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), that the Israeli air force unlawfully used experimental uranium-based weapons on civilian targets in its recent war with Lebanon. In a press release, the British Green member said indignantly: “The use of novel weapons incapable of distinguishing between military and civilian targets is a clear breach of the Geneva Conventions - and it is vital that the EU use all means at its disposal, including the suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement which gives special access to Israeli producers to EU markets, to bring pressure to bear on Israel to stop using these weapons immediately”. She notes that Israeli Defence Forces are denying using new uranium weapons although twenty UNEP experts, working with Lebanese environmentalists, have spent two weeks gathering evidence of their use. (mg)