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February 18, 2010

UN: Cluster Bomb Treaty Could Be Ratified
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The United Nations has announced an international ban on cluster bombs
could be ratified later this year. On Wednesday, the UN said it had
received the twenty-ninth and thirtieth signatories from Burkina Faso
and Moldova. Clusters bombs are packed with bomblets that spread out
over a large area and often don’t explode on first impact. They have
been particularly lethal to children who pick them up off the ground,
sometimes years down the line. The US, Russia and Israel have all
refused to sign on to the ban.



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