LEBANON: Lebanon denounces Israel’s cluster bombs
Posted by warvictims on October 7, 2008
by Press TV
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri urges the world community to condemn Israel’s use of cluster bombs against Lebanon in 2006.
“Even after the UN Security Council approved Resolution 1701 Israel continued its assault and dropped more than 1 million cluster bombs in the last three days of the war,” Berri said.
The speaker further called on the Lebanese government to shoulder responsibility for the issue and compensate bereaved families of the victims.
Berri made the remarks at the opening of a workshop on mines and cluster bombs organized by Parliament’s human rights committee on Monday.
He also called on Arab countries, international organizations and the United Nations to offer financial assistance to help in de-mining efforts.
“The international community, too, should demand Israel to pay compensation to Lebanon for having abandoned undetonated bombs at civilian and agricultural lands of our country,” he added.
“Lebanon has been among the pioneers of signing the treaty to abandon the usage of cluster bombs, and is yet a big victim of their usage by the inhumane Tel Aviv regime of such fatal facilities,” he noted.
According to Berri, Israel still refuses to provide the UN with a list of sites targeted by such fatal bombs.
Source: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=71491§ionid=351020203
