Debate on Thursday, 15 November 2007, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Elton. The answering member was Lord Malloch-Brown.

Conventional Weapons

Lords debate on motion to call attention to the recent proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Certain Conventional Weapons at Geneva. Motion withdrawn.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 696 c588-606
Session: 2007-08
Department: Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chamber / Committee: House of Lords chamber
Proceeding contributions: Lord Elton | 696 c606 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to your Lordships. I earlier thanked your Lordships for taking part, be...; Lord Malloch-Brown | 696 c606 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord will have heard me say that I hoped that the observation of the noble Lord,...; Lord Elton | 696 c605-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before the noble Lord sits down, could he address my question about the constraints put on...; Lord Malloch-Brown | 696 c605 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was acknowledging a failure rate of 25 per cent to 30 per cent for the weapons used in L...; Lord Elton | 696 c605 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does the noble Lord accept that experts—I think that it was the Norwegians themselves—went...; Lord Addington | 696 c599-600 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hear it was at the other end. There is no way that we can deal with these things safely...; Lord Dubs | 696 c597-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is indeed a privilege to follow the three speeches made so far. Most of the arguments h...; Lord Addington | 696 c598-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the more I thought about this debate and the more work I did for it, the more I felt that ...; Lord Elton | 696 c602-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we keep on referring to ““dumb””. My noble friend advanced a possible definition of what i...; Lord Malloch-Brown | 696 c603-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord knows that the United Kingdom now has two weapons types that are in dispute...; Lord Astor of Hever | 696 c600-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, thank my noble friend Lord Elton for bringing cluster munitions and the latest Uni...; Lord Malloch-Brown | 696 c602 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join all who have congratulated the noble Lord, Lord Elton, on obtaining time for this i...; Lord Ramsbotham | 696 c604 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, but I think that he would agree that the weapons that we actually ...; Lord Jay of Ewelme | 696 c592-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Elton, on bringing this subject to your Lordships' Hou...; Lord Elton | 696 c588-92 (Link to this contribution) rose to call attention to the recent proceedings of the United Nations Conference on Certain Convent...; Lord Ramsbotham | 696 c594-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join my noble friend Lord Jay in congratulating the noble Lord, Lord Elton, on obtaining...; Lord Malloch-Brown | 696 c604-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think that the noble Lord is correct. Although they were deployed in 2003, they were fel...
Subjects: Casualties Civilians Arms control Cluster munitions Bomb disposal EU action Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
Contains statistics: Yes
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Conventional Weapons

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