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In a surprising move Britain’s prime minister Gordon Brown has changed position in negotiating a cluster bomb ban. The negotiators are now advised to accept a ban including the Helicopter ammunitions M73 and M85. The only open questions left seems to be about the timeline of scrapping the bombs. Gordon Brown advised the abolition of the most dangerous cluster ammunition in Britain’s arsenal immediately. As pointed out yesterday, this opens questions about possible prosecution for British soldiers who fight along military still using the bombs, thus putting pressure on the US to stop using them in joint operations.

This is good news indeed!

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