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| Diplomats agree on cluster bomb treaty |
| 2008-05-28 |
| Posted by:Oztralian |
| #3 United States — Population: 301,139,947 Russia — Population: 141,377,752 China — Population: 1,321,851,888 India — Population: 1,129,866,154 Israel - Population: 7,282,000 Pakistan — Population: 164,741,924 Total ------------------ 3,066,259,665 World — Population: 6,602,224,175 If everybody else on the planet was considered signed or no opinion - 3,535,964,510 %46.5 no %53.5 no opinion or yes So not knowing the size of no opinion but guessing it is much bigger than %3.5 I would have to say the Nay's have it on population alone |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-05-28 21:50 |
| #2 Basically, the countries that have had the weapons used against them vs. the countries that have said weapons. Lovely. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-05-28 19:46 |
| #1 But crucially, the United States, Russia, China, India, Israel and Pakistan - all major producers and stockpilers of cluster bombs - were all absent from the Dublin talks, and thus not part of the agreement. In other words, countries that may not even have a single cluster bomb in their arsenal, who probably could not fight their way out of a wet paper bag, have decided not to use them. What an agreement... |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-05-28 19:31 |