UK urged to resist moves to add protocol to convention, which charities say will legalise use of controversial weapon
The use of
cluster bombs will be given backing under plans being drawn up at an international treaty conference, according to opponents of the weapons which maim and kill civilians, notably children, long after they have been dropped.
The bombs are banned under the 2008 convention on cluster munitions, which was adopted by the UK and more than 100 other
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