MAPW urges Cambodia to join cluster bomb treaty: June 2009

2 June 2009: This letter from MAPW President Sue Wareham urges Cambodia to join the 96 countries from around the world that have signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions. Dr Wareham describes this comprehensive international ban on cluster munitions as "the most important humanitarian and disarmament treaty of the last decade, requiring each country to destroy its stockpiles of this weapon within eight years." Similar letters were sent to the governments of Thailand and Viet Nam and to the ambassadors to Australia, of each country.