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Most significant disarmament and humanitarian treaty of the decade opens for signature
WHAT: Convention on Cluster Munitions Signing Conference
Heads of State, Foreign Ministers and senior government representatives from over 100 countries are expected to gather in Oslo to sign a worldwide ban on the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster bombs. It will be the most significant humanitarian and disarmament treaty of the decade.
Filed Under: Media Advisory, Oslo Signing Conference
Read the latest issue of the CMC Newsletter and find out about recent campaign actions and events around the world, as well as national and international meetings related to cluster munitions and the Oslo Process. In the October issue you can read about the European Faith Leaders Conference on Cluster Munitions, the South East Asia Regional Conference on the CCM, Ban Bus activities between the Balkans and Oslo and much more.
Filed Under: CMC Newsletter
Talks in Geneva fail as momentum grows for Oslo signing conference
(Geneva, Switzerland, 14 November 2008) - The comprehensive global ban on cluster bombs to be signed in Oslo on 3 December has been confirmed as the only multilateral option to address humanitarian concerns. After eight weeks of negotiations in the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) the US, South Korea, Israel and others failed to push through agreement on an alternative accord in to allow continued use.
Filed Under: CCW, Press Release
Photos: Serena Olgiati
20 States from Latin America and the Caribbean as well as representatives of UNDP, ICRC and 16 representatives of the CMC attended the Quito Regional Conference on the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Paraguay announced they would sign the treaty in Oslo on 3 December, joining Chile, Mexico and Uruguay. Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Peru indicated they are working on the internal process for signature in Oslo.
Filed Under: Ecuador