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BRITÁNICO aliste para desechar bombas de racimo del asesino

Miércoles 28 de mayo de 2008

clusterbomb.jpgPor Richard Norton-Taylor | El gobierno se está preparando para desechar el arsenal entero de Gran Bretaña de las bombas de racimo frente a un clamor cada vez mayor contra las armas que han matado y los centenares maimed de civiles inocentes.

Los funcionarios están pavimentando la manera para el inesperado y el paso radical en las negociaciones en Dublín en un tratado internacional tuvo como objetivo una interdicción mundial en las bombas.

las fuentes Bien-colocadas hicieron claramente ayer eso a pesar de la oposición de los militares, el gobierno están preparadas para conseguir libradas de las municiones de racimo en el armoury de Gran Bretaña: la arma lsraeli-diseñada de la artillería M85 usada durante la invasión 2003 de Iraq y en ataques contra Líbano hace dos años; y el M73, parte de un sistema de armas para los helicópteros de Apache.

“El primer ministro está mucho detrás de este proceso y quisiera que firmáramos [el tratado]”, una fuente extranjera mayor de la oficina dicha ayer.

Irlanda, que está presidiendo las negociaciones, quisiera que un texto del tratado fuera adoptado esta noche. “Si firmamos hasta el tratado que perderemos el M85 y el ″ M73, la fuente dicha. Mientras que el gobierno aparece feliz para que las fuerzas británicas consigan librado de sus armas M85 inmediatamente, desea una “eliminación progresiva de período” para su M73s.

El acuerdo, esperado para ser confirmado hoy, termina un conflicto duradero de Whitehall que ha marcado con hoyos el ministerio de la defensa contra el FO y del departamento para el desarrollo internacional. La MOD dice que el número de las bombas de racimo en el armoury es “operacionalmente sensible” pero que concede que el desarme de ellas costará diez de millones de libras.

Todavía embrollaron a los participantes en las negociaciones ayer por la noche en la cuestión disgustada de si las tropas de los países que firman hasta la interdicción podrían ir en operaciones con ésos, notablemente los E.E.U.U., que no lo hacen. Evitar que hagan tan podría conducir a las aberturas en otras comisiones del tratado, notablemente implicando la OTAN, y tendría implicaciones prácticas serias, los funcionarios británicos dicen. El gobierno también desea permitir que los E.E.U.U. almacenen las armas del racimo en las bases americanas en el Reino Unido.

La presión sería aplicada en los E.E.U.U. de no utilizar sus armas del racimo en operaciones comunes con los países que los habían prohibido, funcionarios sugiere.

Las armas del racimo son altamente polémicas porque dispersan las “bombitas pequeñas” sobre un área amplia. Many of them do not explode on impact and are activated later by civilians. They caused more than 200 civilian casualties in the year after the Lebanon ceasefire, and more civilian casualties in Iraq in 2003 and Kosovo in 1999 than any other weapon system.

The M85 was fired by British troops around Basra during the invasion of Iraq. According to the MoD, they made a “direct contribution to saving the lives of UK service personnel”.

The M73 rocket, part of the Apache’s weapons system, is fired from pods on the attack helicopters and can also be fitted to Harrier jets. In its defence of their use, MoD officials have argued that they were “direct fire” weapons - in other words a pilot firing them can see the target - and that a single weapon had fewer than 10 “bomblets”.

However, that figure refers to the number in just one rocket pod, and an Apache can carry a total of 684 in its cluster weapons, campaigners say.

Human rights groups campaigning for a ban on all cluster bombs said yesterday the planned treaty was being threatened by the refusal of the US to remove stocks from its airforce bases on UK territory.

Simon Conway, a former soldier and the director of Landmine Action UK, said: “Gordon Brown has pushed the Dublin negotiations in the right direction. Now is the time for him to have the courage of his convictions and tell the US that it cannot store these outdated and indiscriminate weapons on UK soil.”

Article 1 of the planned treaty, due to be signed in Oslo in early December, prohibits assistance with the use, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions. The US, Israel, Russia, China, India and Pakistan are not taking part in the talks.

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