 Umarbek Pulodov |
“No more children should be harmed or families destroyed by this weapon. On behalf of all other cluster munition survivors from Tajikistan, I call on the Government to sign the treaty now!” Tajikistan is affected by cluster munitions following use in the civil war in the 1990s. Signing the Convention would enable Tajikistan to receive assistance for the clearance of cluster bomb remnants and to help victims of cluster munitions. Although Tajikistan participated in the Oslo Process and endorsed the Oslo Declaration and the Wellington Declaration, the country did not attend the Dublin negotiations in May 2008. Tajikistan has not signed the Convention and has not provided a public explanation for this. |
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More than 80 Governments meet in Berlin to plan weapon disposal
(Berlin, 24 June 2009) - The new international convention banning cluster bombs is already delivering results as signatories plan the destruction of these indiscriminate weapons even before it has entered into force said the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) today on the eve of a major international conference in Berlin. On 25 and 26 June delegations from more than 80 countries will meet in the German capital to discuss plans for stockpile destruction.
 Photo: UN Treaty Section |
On 16th and 17th June, Albania and Spain both deposited their instrument of ratification of the Convention on Cluster Munitions at the United Nations in New York, becoming respectively the 9th and 10th countries to ratify. Just five days after Jamaica and Nigeria signed the treaty, which has already gathered 98 signatories since opening for signature in December last year, these ratifications show the continuing strong momentum behind the treaty banning cluster bombs. Now just 20 more countries must ratify the treaty to reach the threshold of 30 required for it to enter into force and take full legal effect. |
 Ambassador U. Joy Ogwu of Nigeria |
On Friday 12 June, Jamaica and Nigeria became the 97th and 98th signatories of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, just six months after the international treaty opened for signature. Recent signatures and ratifications of the treaty in diverse regions show that consensus around a world free of cluster bombs is growing. Ambassadors U. Joy Ogwu of Nigeria and Raymond Wolfe of Jamaica signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on behalf of their governments on Friday at the United Nations in New York. |
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Global Week of Action Against Cluster Bombs - Campaigners in 58 countries take action
The Global Week of Action Against Cluster Bombs took place from 29 May-4 June 2009, one year after the historic negotiations and formal adoption of the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Dublin, Ireland on 30 May 2008. Campaigners in 58 countries participated in the week of action calling on governments to sign and ratify the Convention through letter actions, meetings and workshops, photo exhibitions and film screenings.