Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-10-28-Speech-4-145"
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"en.20041028.11.4-145"2
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"Mr President, although there is as yet no agreement banning cluster bombs – as opposed to anti-personnel mines – there is growing awareness of the need for global action to deal with them. I believe that our resolution today helps to foster such awareness and to precipitate such action.
This text criticises the continuing and frequent deployment of cluster munitions in armed conflict. Not only does it claim victims while hostilities are in progress, but also for years afterwards, a problem underlined in Human Rights Watch’s report on the conduct of the Iraq war and its civilian victims, which was published at the end of 2003.
In it, we read that the use of large quantities of cluster munitions, particularly by American and British ground troops, claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians. I do not believe that much is to be gained by affirmations of a desire to make such weaponry safer and to produce it in such a way that its effects on the civilian population are less devastating. It follows that this House’s call for an immediate moratorium on the production and use of cluster bombs is extraordinarily important."@en1
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