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2008-05-28 International-UN-NGOs

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Posted by Oztralian 2008-05-28 19:11|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 But crucially, the United States, Russia, China, India, Israel and Pakistan - all major producers and stockpilers of cluster bombs - were all absent from the Dublin talks, and thus not part of the agreement.

In other words, countries that may not even have a single cluster bomb in their arsenal, who probably could not fight their way out of a wet paper bag, have decided not to use them.

What an agreement...

Posted by john frum 2008-05-28 19:31|| 2008-05-28 19:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Basically, the countries that have had the weapons used against them vs. the countries that have said weapons.

Lovely.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-05-28 19:46|| 2008-05-28 19:46|| Front Page Top

#3 United States Population: 301,139,947
Russia Population: 141,377,752
China Population: 1,321,851,888
India Population: 1,129,866,154
Israel - Population: 7,282,000
Pakistan Population: 164,741,924
Total ------------------ 3,066,259,665
World Population: 6,602,224,175

If everybody else on the planet was considered signed or no opinion - 3,535,964,510
%46.5 no
%53.5 no opinion or yes

So not knowing the size of no opinion but guessing it is much bigger than %3.5 I would have to say the Nay's have it on population alone

Posted by 3dc 2008-05-28 21:50|| 2008-05-28 21:50|| Front Page Top

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