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"en.20111117.17.4-308-500"2
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"At the instigation of Norway, 46 states signed up to the Oslo Declaration in February 2007 with the declared aim of achieving a worldwide ban on cluster munitions by the end of 2008. The Convention on Cluster Munitions, or CCM, has been in force since 1 August 2010 and has already been ratified by 38 countries, with a further 70 countries in the process of ratification. On the one hand, the CCM prohibits the use and trading of cluster munitions and calls on countries to destroy their existing stockpiles of cluster munitions. Many of the countries that are the main producers of these weapons have not yet signed the agreement, among them, Brazil, India, Pakistan, China, Russia and the US. Cluster bombs mainly pose a threat to civilians, as unexploded munitions are often discovered and detonated by innocent bystanders. I voted in favour of this resolution because I believe that every loophole, however small, must be closed to prevent the stockpiling and deployment of these deadly munitions."@en1
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