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U.S. Efforts Supporting New CCW Protocol on Cluster Munitions Fail

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

John R. Crook
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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 106 , Issue 2 , April 2012 , pp. 388 - 390
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2012

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References

1 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, Oct. 10, 1980, 1342 UNTS 137, 19 ILM 1523 (1980).

2 For information on the CCW and its protocols, see http://www.unog.ch/80256EE600585943/(httpPages)/4F0DEF093B4860B4C1257180004B1B30?OpenDocument.

3 Crook, John R., Contemporary Practice of the United States, 101 AJIL 478, 501, 502 (2007)Google Scholar.

4 Crook, John R., Contemporary Practice of the United States, 102 AJIL 860, 889 (2008)Google Scholar.

5 For the text of the Oslo Convention and related information, see http://www.clusterconvention.org/.

6 While the Oslo Convention is often described as banning possession and use of cluster munitions, its Article 2(c) defines cluster munitions to exclude certain advanced weapons that incorporate small numbers of submunitions.

7 Crook, supra note 3, at 503.

8 Statement by Jakob Kellenberger, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Fourth Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), 14-25 November 2011, Geneva, Switzerland (Nov. 15, 2011), at http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/stntement/ccwstatement-2011-1l-15.htm.

9 Steve Goose, The United States Aims Low on Cluster Munitions, Huffington Post, Nov. 15, 2011, at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-goose/the-united-states-aims-lo_b_l094448.html.

10 U.S. Dep’t of State Press Release No. 2011/1946, CCW Protocol on Cluster Munitions Would Have Immediate and Tangible Humanitarian Effect (Nov. 16, 2011), at http://geneva.usmission.gov/2011/11/17/ccwprotocol-2/.

11 Nick Cumming-Bruce, SwitzerUnd: Munitions Treaty Fails, N.Y. Times, Nov. 26, 2011, at A8.

12 Id.

13 U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva Press Release, U.S. Deeply Disappointed by CCWs Failure to Conclude Protocol on Cluster Munitions, Statement of the United States of America on the Outcome of the Fourth Review Conference of the CCW (Nov. 25, 2011), at http://geneva.usmission.gov/2011/11/25/u-s-deeply-disappointed-by-ccws-failure-to-conclude-procotol-on-cluster-munitions/.