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Eight years after its entry into force on 1 March 1999, the Mine Ban Treaty has emphatically made a difference to the lives of individuals and communities in mine affected areas, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) said today.
A historic process to develop, negotiate and conclude a new treaty prohibiting cluster munitions that have unacceptable consequences for civilians was launched at a successful conference hosted by the Norwegian Foreign Minister in Oslo at a meeting of 49 states, the Cluster Munition Coalition said today.
A clear commitment to develop, negotiate and conclude a new treaty by 2008 must emerge from the government meeting on cluster munitions in Norway this week, the Cluster Munition Coalition said today.
Ten years after the Nobel Prize winning campaign to ban landmines, some 40 governments and as many civil society organisations will meet in Oslo to launch an international process to ban cluster bombs that cause unacceptable humanitarian consequences. These preventable, predictable and unacceptable consequences have been increasingly brought to light by recent conflicts including in Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans.
October 1996 marked a turning point in the development of the global campaign against anti-personnel mines.Ten years on, the strong spirit of the early days of the mine ban movement is still alive, but needs some rekindling.
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