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U.S. Policy Regarding Cluster Munitions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 101 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 501 - 504
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2007

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References

1 See, for example, the Web site of the advocacy group Cluster Munitions Coalition, <http://www.stopclustermunitions.org/dokumenti/dokument.asp?id=37=.

2 U.S. Dept of State Daily Press Briefing (Feb. 23, 2007), at <http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2007/80978.htm=.

3 22 U.S.C. §§2751-2796(d) (2000).

4 David S. Cloud & Greg Myre, Israel May Have Violated Arms Pact, U.S. Says, N.Y. TIMES, Jan. 28, 2007, at Al.

5 John, R. Crook, Contemporary Practice of the United States, 100 AJIL 961 (2006).Google Scholar

6 Anthony, Shadid, In Lebanon, a War’s Lethal Harvest, Wash. Post, Sept. 26, 2006, at A1 Google Scholar; Michael, Slackman, Israeli Bomblets Plague Lebanon, N.Y. Times, Oct. 6, 2006, at A1 Google Scholar; Greg, Myre, Israel Orders Investigation of Bomb Use in Lebanon, N.Y. Times, Nov. 21, 2006, at A22.Google Scholar

7 President George W. Bush, Message to the Senate of the United States (June 19, 2006), at <http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/06/20060620-3.html=.

8 Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War (Protocol V) to Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects, Nov. 28, 2003, at <http://www.ccwtreaty.com/KeyDocs/MainDocs/Protocol-V-E.pdf=.

9 U.S. Dep’t of State Media Note 2006/1052, Outcome of Third Review Conference on Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (Nov. 17, 2007), at <http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2006/76271.htm=.

10 U.S. Dep’t of State Fact Sheet 2007/127, United States Clearance of Unexploded Cluster Munitions (Feb. 23, 2007), at <http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2007/february/81000.htm=.

11 The February 2007 Oslo Declaration on developing a new international treaty on cluster munitions is at <http://www.regjeringen.no/upload/UD/Vedlegg/Oslo%20Declaration%20(final)%2023%20February%202007.pdf= . Background materials on the Oslo Conference are at <http://www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/ud/Selected-topics/Humanitarian-efforts/The-Norwegian-Governments-initiative-for/conference,html?id=449312&epslanguage=EN-GB= .

12 USUN Press Release, Final Statement by Ronald J. Bettauer, Head of the U.S. Delegation to the CCW Review Conference (Nov. 17, 2006), at <http://geneva.usmission.gov/Press2006/1117CCWClosing.html=.

13 Secretary-General Encouraged by Oslo Conference Declaration Envisioning Ban of Cluster Munitions by 2008 (Feb. 23, 2007), UN Doc. SG/SM/10887, at <http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/sgsml0887.doc.htm=

14 Belgium: Cluster Bomb Investment Barred, N.Y. Times, Mar. 3, 2007, at A8.Google Scholar

15 [UK] Ministry of Defence, Defence News, UK Becomes First Major Power to Scrap Dumb Cluster Munitions (Mar. 20, 2007), at <http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/EquipmentAndLogistics/UkBecomesFirstMajorPowerToScrapdumbClusterMunitions.htm=.