The Controversial Stand on Lithuania’s Withdrawal from the Cluster Munitions Convention

“Lithuania was the 55th country to join the ban on cluster munitions,” Anusauskas wrote on the Facebook social network, indicating that the country should withdraw from the convention in order to purchase and use cluster munitions. “I hope it will be done,” he emphasized.

The convention, which Lithuania ratified in 2011, prohibits the use, production and purchase of cluster munitions and outlines specific requirements to address the humanitarian consequences of such weapons.

The explosion of cluster munitions scatters dozens or hundreds of munition particles over a wide area.

A large proportion of munitions do not explode when dropped, leaving devastating effects over an area of ​​several thousand square meters and causing serious injury or death to civilians even after hostilities have ended.

The convention on cluster munitions was developed in 2008 in Dublin and was signed on December 3, 2008 in Oslo. The Convention entered into force on August 1, 2010. More than 110 countries have signed the convention.

These countries do not include Latvia and Estonia, as well as the largest producers and stockpiles of cluster ammunition – China, Russia and the USA.

2023-08-21 10:12:00
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