Cluster bomb ban treaty to be ratified | Bangkok Post: breakingnews

Cambodia and Thailand, which were recently embroiled in a border spat during which cluster bombs were allegedly used, have announced plans to ratify the treaty that bans such weapons, activists said Friday.

A Thai soldier inspects a rocket following an exchange of fire between Thai and Cambodian soldiers across the border at Phanom Dong Rak district in April 2011.

The countries announced their intentions to join the Convention on Cluster Munitions during a four-day meeting in Geneva which brought together more than 80 states, as well as representatives of civil society, UN aid agencies and the International Committee of the Red Cross.