This third daily action alert by the Aotearoa New Zealand Cluster Munition Coalition targets POLAND, which has not yet decided if it will sign the Convention on Cluster Munitions this December…

Status
Poland manufactures cluster munitions and wishes to retain the weapon.  In September 2008, Poland’s Defence Minister Bogdan Klich, asked by said, ‘This isn’t just a whim. We need those weapons to defend our territory.” An observer in the Oslo Process (including at the Wellington Conference in February 2008) , Poland did not adopt the Convention on Cluster Munitions in May 2008. It has preferred to tackle cluster munitions through the moribund Geneva-based Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW).

Take Action
Please send a personal letter urging Poland to sign the Convention.

Write to:
Ambassador Lech Mastalerz
Embassy of the Republic of Poland
PO Box 10 211
Wellington 6143
Email. polishembassy[@]xtra.co.nz

More information
* Download ANZCMC Letter to Poland’s Ambassador to New Zealand
* Polish NGOs against cluster munitions - Amnesty International Poland, Helsinki Federation for Human Rights,Polish Red Cross
* Support the Ban Bus Europe (due in Poland in November!)

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