Ukraine risks dire consequences due to the use of cluster munitions during hostilities. According to the American magazine, the negative effect of using such shells can persist even after the conflict has ended. foreign policy.
As Verena Hölzl, the author of the article, noted, first of all, Kiev’s decision will hit the inhabitants of the country themselves. In his reasoning, the observer referred to the warnings of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, whose state had been hit hard with cluster bombs in the past.
A Phnom Penh spokesperson appealed to US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, urging them to stop using such weapons. According to him, “The Ukrainians will be the real victims.”
The Lao Foreign Ministry also expressed “deep concern” about what happened, although it did not mention the US and Ukraine’s decision. The agency merely recalled that in the period from 1964 to 1973, Washington dropped a large number of cluster munitions on the republic during the bombing.
“Fifteen years ago, many countries around the world agreed never to use controversial weapons again, which drop indiscriminate bombs over large areas and pose a particular danger to civilians for decades to come,” the material said.
However, the author of the publication added that the United States and Ukraine did not sign the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
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