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100 states sign cluster-bomb ban in Oslo
Oslo, Dec 3 (DPA) Government leaders from more than 100 states Wednesday signed a global ban on the use of cluster bombs.
The treaty, which was negotiated in Dublin in May, bans the production, use and trade of cluster munitions.
Cluster weapons - criticised for carrying a high risk of maiming or killing civilians - can be launched from the air or via artillery shells and can disperse hundreds of bomblets over a target area.
Children are often victims of the weapons since they sometimes mistake the so-called bomblets for toys.
Several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and humanitarian groups had pushed for the ban.
However, the world's largest producers and users of cluster bomb munitions - the US, Russia, China, Israel, India and Pakistan - are not signatories of the treaty.
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