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2008-05-30 International-UN-NGOs

Int'l confab approves de facto total, immediate ban on cluster bombs

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Posted by anonymous5089 2008-05-30 07:08|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Now if you really want results get the top 5 international donor nations together and issue an agreement on taking a five year Bankers Holiday moratorium in light of apparently 100 other nations telling them what to do in this world.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-05-30 08:25|| 2008-05-30 08:25|| Front Page Top

#2 My guess is that most of the signatories are countries that would be on the receiving end of cluster munitions rather that the giving end. Sort of like the Geneva Convention, meaningless when you fight nonsignatories.

Posted by RWV 2008-05-30 08:36|| 2008-05-30 08:36|| Front Page Top

#3 47.5 percent of the world's people are in the the 10 countries that didn't attend.
It's a meaningless rant.

Posted by 3dc 2008-05-30 10:20|| 2008-05-30 10:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Piss off, ya wankers.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-05-30 12:24|| 2008-05-30 12:24|| Front Page Top

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