Oslo Conference on Cluster Munitions
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The Oslo Conference on Cluster Munitions was held in Oslo on 22/23 February 2007 to discuss measures to ban cluster munitions. The Oslo Conference, which was attended by representatives from 49 countries as well as four United Nations organisations and numerous non-governmental organisations, was initiated by Norway. The negotiations continued from 23 to 25 May 2007 in Lima, Peru.
Previous attempts to ban cluster munitions within the framework of the 1981 Convention on the Prohibition or Restriction of the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) have always failed due to the blockade policy of the USA and Russia.[1] The conference was a deliberate attempt by Norway to achieve a ban on cluster munitions outside the CCW, which is based on consensus decisions.[2]