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"The ECR Group is very much in favour of all efforts to minimise the suffering of combatants and civilians and thereby voted in favour of this resolution. However, we take the view that nothing must be done to impair the operational effectiveness and security of our armed forces. We should therefore be clear that ‘cluster munitions’ as defined by the Convention on Cluster Munitions do not include munitions which self destruct or self deactivate: in other words, those that will be used by the responsible armed forces of our nations.
I personally disapprove of the language in paragraph 10 which calls on the High Representative to make every effort to ‘realize the accession of the Union to the CCM’. One of the many unfortunate consequences of the Treaty of Lisbon is that the EU itself is now able to accede to international conventions. This should be the prerogative of sovereign nations, not an organisation such as the EU, although it is clear that there are those that seek, most regrettably, to turn the EU into a sovereign state."@en1
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