In its capacity as the President of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the Netherlands would like to congratulate France on its destruction of all of France’s cluster munitions stockpiles as announced on 30 June 2016. This is an important contribution to the implementation of the Convention and the Netherlands would like to call upon other States Parties with outstanding obligations on the destruction of their stockpiles to follow this example.

Detailed information can be found on the following official links:

French: http://www.delegfrance-cd-geneve.org/Destruction-terminee-des-stocks-d-armes-a-sous-munitions-detenus-par-la-France

English: http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/french-foreign-policy/disarmament-and-non-proliferation/france-and-the-elimination-of-cluster-munitions/article/disarmament-destruction-of-french-cluster-munition-stockpiles-complete-joint