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Thursday, November 29 2007

Good Luck, by Danijel Ivic

TUESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2007

I am happy to hear that my friends, the Advocates from Serbia are on their way to the conference in Vienna. Now that they know how important the role of advocates is, and after the great experience of working with so many concerned people from all over the world at the Belgrade Conference, I hope they will raised their voices against cluster munitions again and even louder. They have to explain to the widest possible public how dangerous that weapon is and to insist on the banning of all kinds of weapons. To all the Advocates, to the Handicap International team, and to all that will participate in the Vienna conference, I wish you great success.

Tuesday, November 27 2007

Cluster munitions in my country, by Svetlana Bogdanovic

TUESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2007. Svetlana Bogdanovic, Ban Advocates Support Staff, Interpreter svetlanavienna.jpg

I’ll let others write about the impact of cluster munitions, about their technical details, their use and numbers. Without introduction and without beating about the bush, I want to say how furious and ashamed I am to have known so little about cluster munitions and the tragedies they caused to so many people in the world and, what is even worst, to people living so close by, almost next door to me. I say “furious” because I thought I knew what was going on in the world and in my country as an educated and relatively well-informed person, which I thought I was. Obviously, I did not.

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