Cluster bombs : Lebanon conference aims for eradication

On September 13 of this year, officers from 100 countries gathered in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, to attend a conference on cluster munitions. Cluster munitions are a great danger because many of the bombs fail to explode and they can kill civilians and even children. Lebanon suffered attacks by Israel in 2006 and currently hundreds of thousands of cluster munitions are unexploded. What constitutes a serious threat to the Lebanese population. Hence the effort by many countries to eradicate this weapon. But Lebanon is not the only country with this problem, so do Iraq and Libya. As expected, countries with the world’s cluster munitions did not sign the treaty. These countries are China, Israel, Russia and the United States.

I think this is a serious problem that should not go unnoticed. How can a country live with the uncertainty of not knowing whether a cluster bomb is going to explode? It seems unbelievable to me the fact that the United States, China, Russia and Lebanon refuse to sign the treaty. And China, Russia and the U.S. are those who have the right to veto?Those who are supposed to set an example to the world and in the meantime let people live in danger with the fear that their children may die? This type of article once again shows me that the States are guided only by pure interest because if they were moved by humanitarian concerns this problem would not even be discussed. Unfortunately, without the support of countries with veto power, they do not have too much to do.