Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-07-07-Speech-3-513"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2010-07-07"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Entry into force on 1 August 2010 of the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) and the role of the EU (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20100707.33.3-513"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2010-07-07-Speech-3-5142
lpv:speaker	lp:Ulrike Lunacek2
lpv:spokenAs	member; SEDE (2009-07-16--2011-09-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; AFET (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2012-02-12)3 unknown; Die Grünen - Die Grüne Alternative (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; FEMM (2009-08-28--2012-01-18)3 member; G/EFA (2009-07-14--2013-02-04)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, Baroness Ashton, ladies and gentlemen, my first encounter with the issue of cluster munitions was more than four years ago, when a group of civil society organisations approached the Austrian Parliament, of which I was then a Member, asking us to organise an event around the issue in order to get the convention off the ground. The group included victims, people who themselves had lost a leg or had suffered other serious health problems because of cluster munitions. They showed us photographs illustrating what happens when a bomb of this type detonates. Hundreds of tiny, coloured fragments are produced that are then left lying about, possibly for years – hence the term cluster munitions. Children playing on the site at a later time can be attracted by the bright colours, picking the fragments up only for them to explode in their hand, causing them to lose an arm or a leg. This made such an impression on me that I started a campaign in Austria and I can say that, after some initial resistance, my country was one of the first to sign and ratify the convention. That is all very well, but so many of the Member States of the European Union have still not signed up. I am very pleased that we have succeeded in convincing a majority – five groups – to support this resolution, particularly because I know, Mr Gahler, that there were some points of concern within your group. I would also like to thank you for agreeing to the naming of the Member States who have not yet signed and ratified the convention and who are not yet prepared actually to destroy their stockpiles and to declare that they will never use these weapons again. Baroness Ashton, I have two specific questions for you: the demand that the EU should sign up to this convention as a legal entity and that, in all negotiations with third countries, you should add the prohibition of cluster bombs and cluster munitions to the standard clause which already includes the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. I would ask that you answer these questions."@en1
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