Oslo Conference on Cluster Munitions
The Oslo Conference on Cluster Munitions was on 22./23. Conference held in Oslo in February 2007 to discuss measures to outlaw cluster munitions . The Oslo Conference, which was attended by representatives from 49 countries as well as 4 UN organizations and numerous non-governmental organizations, was initiated by Norway . The negotiations were continued from May 23 to 25, 2007 in Lima , Peru.
background
Previous attempts to ban cluster munitions under the 1981 Convention on the Prohibition or Restriction of the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) have always failed due to the blockade policies of the USA and Russia . The conference was a targeted attempt by Norway outside of the CCW, which is based on consensus decisions, to achieve an outlawing of cluster munitions.
Results of the conference in Oslo from 22./23. February 2007
Forty-six of the 49 participating states agreed to a ban on “the use, production, delivery and storage of cluster bombs”, which is due to come into force in 2008. The non-signatories Japan, Poland and Romania pleaded for a solution at the 1981 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.
China, India, Israel, Pakistan, Russia and the USA did not attend the conference.
Results of the conference from May 23-25, 2007 in Lima, Peru
In Lima, another 28 states, including Germany, voted to join an agreement to ban cluster munitions. Among them were the countries affected by cluster munitions Albania, Cambodia, Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Laos, the former user state Nigeria, the cluster munitions producer Greece as well as Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and Yemen as countries that have stocks of cluster munitions.
Further meetings are planned for December 2007 in Vienna, Austria, for February 2008 in Wellington, New Zealand and for May 2008 in Dublin, Ireland.
Web links
- News about the conference and background information
- Declaration of the Oslo Conference on Cluster Munitions (PDF, 279 kB)
- Report from the Oslo Conference on Cluster Munitions Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, March 2007
- Cluster Bomb Affected Countries Meet with User and Producer Countries to Agree on Steps Towards an International Ban Handicap International, May 24, 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wade Boese: Cluster Munitions Treaty Effort Moving Ahead ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Arms Control Association, April 2007
- ↑ Cluster bomb treaty takes shape after successful ban talks Cluster Munition Coalition, May 25, 2007
