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Issues: Cluster Bombs

East Lansing City Council Resolution on Cluster Bombs

Resolution to Support a Cluster Bomb Ban and to Declare October 6-12, 2008 Cluster Bomb Awareness Week
in East Lansing

WHEREAS, the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines and Cluster Bombs has arranged an Oct. 6-15 survivors' tour through the Midwest in order to encourage the Senate to pass legislation to ban the U.S. from using and exporting cluster bombs; and,

WHEREAS, cluster munitions are large weapons containing multiple smaller munitions that have exacted a devastating toll on civilians; and,

WHEREAS, over the past ten years, the United States has used such weapons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo; today, munitions dropped in Vietnam and Laos continue to kill and maim people; and,

WHEREAS, the United States is the leading producer and exporter of cluster munitions; though Congress has placed a one-year moratorium on the export of cluster bombs, the administration has called for their use for another decade