How to help bring a worldwide ban into force

	Cluster munitions
	What are cluster bombs?
	Success! a new international treaty will be signed
	Stockpiling of US cluster bombs in the UK

Please write to your MP to: -

• Acknowledge the positive role that the UK played in ensuring a successful outcome of the Dublin Diplomatic Conference on Cluster Munitions in May 2008 and welcome the UK Government's intention to sign the treaty in December
  
  
• Stress the importance of early ratification and ask your MP to write to the Foreign Secretary to request that the necessary legislation to enable UK ratification is brought before Parliament as soon as possible.
  
  
• Ask the Foreign Secretary to confirm that, in keeping with the spirit of the treaty, the government will seek the removal of all foreign stockpiles of cluster munitions from UK territories

Please email info@jointpublicissues.org.uk with details of any response received from your MP.

For further information read this briefing from Landmine Action