Laos to host 1st international convention on cluster munitions
This just in from Legacies of War, a nonprofit organization advocating the clearance of unexploded bombs: Ratification by Bukina Faso and Moldova sealed the acceptance of the United Nations Convention on Cluster Munitions. It has taken since December 3, 2008 to gain 110 signatures and now the necessary ratification by 30 nations to place the convention in force on August 1.
"The Secretary-General welcomes this major advance on the global disarmament agenda," declared Ban Ki-moon's spokesperson. "Cluster munitions are unreliable and inaccurate. During conflict and long after it has ended, they maim and kill scores of civillians, including many children. They impair post-conflict recovery by making roads and land inaccessible to farmers and aid workers."
The spokesperson added, "The United Nations is firmly committed to ending the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of cluster munitions and mitigating the suffering they cause. The secretary-general calls on all states to become a party to the convention without delay."
The convention offers provisions for victim assistance and bomb clearance to improve the lives of survivors, families, and communities that have been affected by cluster munitions.
The United States used cluster bombs in astounding numbers during the Vietnam War. Channapa Khamvongsa, who lived through war and its aftermath in Laos, feels the U.S. has been less forthcoming with funds to clear the unexploded bombs covering a large portion of her former homeland and in aiding victims of the weapons.
Her family fled upheavals in that country in 1979 when she was seven years old. She has been waiting a long time for the U.S. to deal with an estimated 78 million cluster submunitions in Laos. That said, her greatest wish is for all parties to fully heal.
Laos will host the First Meeting of State Parties on the subject in late 2010.
Source: http://www.examiner.com/x-22608-Philadelphia-Charity-Examiner~y2010m2d17-Convention-on-Cluster-Munitions-ratified
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It is a good new, the international community will ask American administration to take UXO in Laos back to America which left behind in the period secret war in Laos by American from 1963 to 1973. the world community will will offer the provision and commitment in assistance to Lao people and Government to clear the Land for Agricalture and for development and eradicate the poverty in Laos and making the Land free of Cluster Munitions
ນີ້ເປັນໂອກາດທ່ີດີ ເພືອເປີດຫນ້າກາກ ແລະໂທດກຳຂອງອາເມລິກາ ຢູ່ລາວ, ເອົາຄົນລາວຂ້າຄົນລາວ ແລະປະໄວ້ແຕ່ລະເບີດຕົກຄ້າງສະນິດຕ່າງຯ ທ່ີຍັງສືບຕໍ່ຂ້າຄົນລາວ ຢູ່ໃນແຕ່ລະວັນໃນຂອບເຂດທົ່ວປະເທດ ແລະເປັນການກົດຫນ່ວງໃນການພັດທະນາຂອງຊາດ. ໃນແຕ່ລະປີ ຄົນລາວໄດ້ເສຍຊີວິດຍ້ອນລະເບີດບົ່ມບີ ປະມານ 200 ຫາ 300 ຄົນ . ຊົມເຊີຍລັດຖະບານຈະເປັນເຈົ້າພາບຈັດກອງປະຊຸມດັ່ງກ່າວ.
we are united , Lao people and Government will do it and hope in getting very great eccessful from 1st Meeting of States parties , Laos is a state partie to Convention on Cluster Munitionss (CCM) and is Number 5th among the 30 countries had rafified the convention in March 2009.
UNTED STATES COULDN'T PAY BACK WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO KILL OUR PEOPLE DURING INDOCHINA CIVIL WAR. THEY SHOULD TAKE RESPONSIBILITY TO ALL THEY DESTROYED OUR NATION. THEY ARE EVILS ON THE EARTH. GO CLEAR ALL YOUR UNEXPLODED BOMBS THAT YOU DUMPED IN OUR COUNTRY FROM LAST 40 YEARS AGO MR. OBAMA.
The Unite States does provide financial funds for the clearance of UXO.But some how most of the money seems to always disappear when the Lao government gets it. weird......