Dead Munitions; Arms Control  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 401 no. 8762 (Dec. 2011), page 68.
Topik: International Relations; Military Weapons; Arms Control & Disarmament; International; Treaties

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Disarmament talks are getting harder. Efforts to agree on a treaty banning production of fissile material have stalled for years because of objections from Pakistan. Now four years of bargaining over cluster munitions have failed--despite a drive by America, backed by Russia and China, to promote a deal that would have curbed but not banned the devices. Cluster weapons are a prime target for arms-control campaigners because of their indiscriminate effect. Yet for most of the past decade, the big users and producers, the self-styled "key states", have refused to consider any curb on their freedom to use the weapon. For years that stymied attempts to add a protocol on cluster munitions to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). A turning point came in 2006 amid outrage over Israel's use of cluster weapons in Lebanon. Frustration over the paralysis of the UN process prompted Norway, backed by campaigners, to launch talks on a separate treaty to ban the weapons.

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