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BRITÂNICO apronte para desfazer-se de bombas de conjunto do assassino

Quarta-feira, maio 28o, 2008

clusterbomb.jpgPor Norton-Alfaiate de Richard | O governo está preparando-se para desfazer-se do arsenal inteiro de Grâ Bretanha de bombas de conjunto na cara de um clamor crescente de encontro às armas que mataram e centenas maimed de civis inocentes.

Os oficiais estão pavimentando a maneira para o inesperado e a etapa radical em conversas em Dublin em um tratado internacional visou uma proibição worldwide nas bombas.

as fontes Bem-colocadas fizeram claramente ontem aquela apesar da oposição das forças armadas, o governo são preparadas para começar livradas dos munitions de conjunto no armoury de Grâ Bretanha: a arma lsraeli-projetada da artilharia M85 usada durante a invasão 2003 de Iraq e nos ataques em Líbano dois anos há; e o M73, parte de um sistema de armas para helicópteros de Apache.

“O ministro principal é muito muito atrás deste processo e quer-nos assinar [o tratado]”, uma fonte extrangeira sênior do escritório dita ontem.

Ireland, que chairing as conversas, quer um texto do tratado ser adotado hoje à noite. “Se nós assinamos até o tratado que nós perderemos o M85 e o ″ M73, a fonte dita. Quando o governo parecer feliz para que as forças britânicas comecem livrado de suas armas M85 imediatamente, quer “phasing - para fora período” para seu M73s.

O acordo, esperado ser confirmado hoje, termina uma disputa long-running de Whitehall que pitted o Ministry da defesa de encontro ao FO e do departamento para o desenvolvimento internacional. A modificação diz que o número de bombas de conjunto no armoury é “operacionalmente sensível” mas concedes que decommissioning as custará dez dos milhões das libras.

Os Participants nas conversas embroiled ainda última noite na pergunta vexed de se as tropas dos países que assinam até a proibição poderiam ir em operações com o aqueles, notàvelmente os E.U., que não. Impedir que façam assim poderia conduzir às rupturas em outros compromissos do tratado, notàvelmente envolvendo a OTAN, e teria implicações práticas sérias, os oficiais britânicos dizem. O governo quer também permitir que os E.U. stockpile armas do conjunto em bases americanas no Reino Unido.

A pressão seria aplicada nos E.U. não usar suas armas do conjunto em operações comuns com os países que os tinham proibido, oficiais sugere.

As armas do conjunto são altamente controversas porque dispersam “bomblets pequenos” sobre uma área larga. 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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