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adopted by the Standing Committee, acting on behalf of
the Assembly, on 29 May 2009 (see Doc. 11909, report of the Political Affairs Committee, rapporteur:
Mr Pflug; Doc. 11925, opinion of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights,
rapporteur: Mr Haibach; and Doc.
11929, opinion of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and
Population, rapporteur: Mrs Curtis-Thomas).
1. The Parliamentary
Assembly refers to its Resolution
1668 (2009) on the ban on cluster munitions and recommends that
the Committee of Ministers:
1.1 forward
this resolution to the governments of member states, and request
them to take it into account when raising the issue of the ban on
cluster munitions in their country;
1.2 support actively and publicly – possibly in a declaration
– the campaign for ratification of the Convention on Cluster Munitions
and invite all member and observer states, if they have not already done
so, to immediately sign and ratify this convention without further
delay, particularly the military powers that are major producers
and exporters of cluster munitions, in order to set a good example
for their neighbours;
1.3 until such time that states become parties to the Convention
on Cluster Munitions, invite them to sign and ratify Protocol V
on Explosive Remnants of War (28 November 2003) to the United Nations Convention
on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional
Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have
Indiscriminate Effects, as it provides at least a partial response
to the problem of cluster munitions by alleviating the danger to
civilians when these weapons have been used.
