Norway conference aims for cluster bomb ban by 2008

Norway hosts a 40-nation meeting this week to bolster support for a ban on cluster bombs which campaigners blame for killing and maiming thousands of civilians, many of them children.

The Scandinavian country took the lead on the anti-cluster bomb campaign after the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) in November failed to agree to start negotiations on a ban.

"We are talking about munitions with inhumane consequences," said Raymond Johansen, a senior Norwegian foreign ministry official. "We hope this conference will lead to a very efficient action plan on how to proceed with this."

Norway, which plans to replicate the anti-landmine campaign that won the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize, hopes to push through a ban by 2008.


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There are too many corporate $$$$$$$ to make

There are too many dark skinned people to blast into small chunks