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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9531
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/weapons

EP calls for embargo on cluster bombs

Strasbourg, 25/10/2007 (Agence Europe) - Meeting in plenary, the European Parliament approved a six-party resolution (EPP-ED, PES, ALDE, Greens/EFA, UEN, GUE/NGL) for an global treaty banning all cluster bombs. The European Parliament is calling for an immediate embargo on the use of, investment in, storage of, manufacture of, transfer of and export of cluster bombs. The EP says the embargo should apply until a binding international treaty is negotiated to ban the manufacture, storage,...

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