Treaty on cluster bomb ban agreed at Dublin talks

by Dave Keating | May 28, 2008 at 11:31 pm

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After a week of talks in Dublin to reduce global arms stockpiles, an agreement has been reached to ban teh use of cluster bombs.

A landmark agreement aimed at ending the use of cluster bombs across the globe has been reached following a week of international talks in Dublin.
More than 100 countries have agreed a draft text for an historic treaty to outlaw the use of such munitions, which scatter several hundred "bomblets" over a wide area.

Many of the "bomblets" fail to explode and continue to claim the lives of civilians decades into the future.

The agreement on a new international treaty was reached late last night, but the US, Russia and China have refused to take part.