\u00a0The Cluster Munition Coalition delegation to the meeting included a contingent of Mine Action Fellows who engaged with convention leadership and state delegates during the week.\u00a0\u201cAs young people from different parts of the world, we are committed to keeping this convention alive, including by keeping all States accountable,\u201d The Fellows said in a closing statement before the meeting plenary.\u00a0\u201cWhile we have much to celebrate [on convention progress] we cannot ignore the harm done by States Not Party and the escalation in deaths from Cluster Munitions. Producing, using and transferring cluster munitions by any actor, under any circumstance is unacceptable. We call for an immediate stop to the transfer and use of this indiscriminate weapon.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\nWVCBL\/PSALM join MINE ACTION FELLOWS in condeming use of cluster munitions and implore all states, including the U.S. to join the CONVENTION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0Approximately 66 States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions participated in the 11th meeting. They adopted a final report that \u201cunderscored the obligation of States Parties never under any circumstances to use, develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile, retain or transfer cluster munitions\u201d and \u201ccondemned any use of cluster munitions by any actor.\u201d In their report, the states expressed the meeting\u2019s \u201cgrave concern at the significant increase in civilian casualties and the humanitarian impact resulting from the repeated and well documented use of cluster munitions\u201d since 2021, particularly with respect to \u201cthe use of cluster munitions in Ukraine.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ICBL-CMC Press Release\u00a0\u00a0 Cluster Munition Convention welcomes new states and reiterates condemnation of recent use and transfer of the weapon\u00a0 \u00a0The Eleventh Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions welcomed two new States this week and celebrated stockpile destruction and clearance milestones by States Parties while reiterating its condemnation of any use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wvcbl.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wvcbl.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wvcbl.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wvcbl.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wvcbl.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wvcbl.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1865,"href":"https:\/\/wvcbl.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/1865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wvcbl.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wvcbl.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wvcbl.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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