Thursday, December 04, 2008

Afghanistan Signs Cluster Bomb Treaty

OSLO — In a last-minute change, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan agreed on Wednesday to join some 90 other nations signing a treaty banning the use of the cluster munitions that have devastated his country in recent years.

Norway’s foreign minister, Jonas Gahr Stoere, said he expected several more nations to sign on Thursday. Among them, however, will not be the United States, Russia, China, India, Pakistan or several Middle Eastern nations.
Afghanistan Says It Will Sign Cluster Bomb Treaty
Convention on Cluster Munitions
Timeline of Cluster Munition Use from Human Rights Watch

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