Examples of using Cluster munitions in English and their translations into Czech
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We also call on both governments to sign up to the international convention banning cluster munitions.
Therefore using cluster munitions has to be clearly rejected and forbidden.
All Member States of the European Union share the humanitarian concerns raised by cluster munitions.
These cluster munitions wreak havoc on civilians that continues long after their launch.
I voted against the resolution because I do not believe that the agreement can force countries to prohibit cluster munitions.
Yet the shocking fact is that cluster munitions are stockpiled in over 15 EU Member States.
There are some positive amendments, such as the exclusion of anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions.
As a result, cluster munitions are not only incompatible with humanitarian law, they are also of limited use.
Robert Gates, Defence secretary, has attempted to explain US resistance: cluster munitions are an effective weapon against many different objectives.
In writing.-(DE) Cluster munitions are one of the most insidious weapons, since they mainly kill innocent people when they are used.
Against this background I think the EU should take the lead in trying to ban any kind of production,use and sale of cluster munitions.
The war in the Caucasus and the use of cluster munitions both by Georgia and by Russia, represent a challenge to us.
Cluster Munitions visit unspeakable and indiscriminate horror on civilian populations worldwide, most recently in the Georgian conflict.
The European Union supports the adoption of an international instrument prohibiting cluster munitions, which cause unacceptable harm to civilian populations.
Weapons of mass destruction, cluster munitions, depleted uranium weapons and phosphorus shells must be prohibited as a matter of urgency.
We unanimously condemn the unbelievable attempt by the USA, Russia andChina at the last Geneva conference to legalise cluster munitions within the CCW.
In writing.-(SV) There is no doubt that cluster munitions are very cruel weapons systems which cause great suffering to civilians.
Author.-(DE) Mr President, Mrs Lochbihler is quite right: it is firstly about people, about the dead and wounded, andabout this scandalous use of cluster munitions.
UN takes a rather dim view of cluster munitions on the basis that, and I quote,"They pose an indiscriminate threat to the civilian population.
Whilst I welcome moves by countries such as Belgium to establish national legislation to ban cluster munitions, all other EU Member States must follow suit.
The justification for this is that cluster munitions have been acquired to take the place of another type of inhumane weapon, the anti-personnel mine.
Author.-(DE) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, on 3 December 2008 in Oslo,we will at last reach the point of being able to sign the convention banning cluster munitions.
Cluster munitions tend to have a high death rate and pose a serious risk to citizens, especially when used close to residential areas.
On behalf of the PSE Group.- Mr President,today we are appealing to the EU countries who are not currently planning to sign the Convention against cluster munitions to do so.
I believe this plan to ban cluster munitions globally to be a matter, as I was saying, that goes to the heart of civilisation and humanity.
However, it was agreed to convene, as a matter of urgency, an intersessional meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts on Explosive Remnants of War,with particular focus on cluster munitions.
I would highlight the fact that cluster munitions are extremely deadly and constitute a serious risk to the civilian population, including in post-conflict periods.
Diplomatic manoeuvres by the UK Government andothers to suggest there are'dumb' and'smart' cluster munitions must be given short shrift- they all kill and maim.
Projects covering cluster munitions have also been carried out in countries which are highly affected by these weapons, such as Afghanistan, Laos and Cambodia to name a few of them.