CLUSTER MUNITIONS BAN: BUILDING BRITAIN’S FUTURE
Today the Prime Minister published a major consultation exercise on the Draft Legislative Programme (DLP) including a Cluster Munitions Prohibitions Bill to give effect to the UK’s obligations under the Oslo Treaty signed by David Miliband at the end of last year.
The Plan called “Building Britain’s Future” calls for the United Kingdom to show leadership on a wider scale in driving forward a step-change on the nuclear non-proliferation and multilateral disarmament agenda in 2010.
The new bill on cluster munitions will create the criminal offences to enforce the Oslo Treaty's ban on the use, development, production,stockpiling, retention or transfer of cluster munitions, and thereby pave the way for the UK's ratification of this most significant new arms control agreement in recent years.
The Oslo Treaty (or more correctly the Convention on Cluster Munitions), and this Bill, will advance our goal of tackling the humanitarian and security threats posed by conventional weapons to regional and global stability, security and sustainable development.
To take part in this online consultation Building Britain's Future follow the links above.
Posted at 17:00 29 June 2009 by John Duncan | Comments[0]
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