Incendiary Weapons Draw Widespread Condemnation

Expand Delegates to the Convention on Conventional Weapons Meeting of High Contracting Parties deliberate the contents of the final report of the meeting on November 15, 2019.  © Alev Erhan, 2019 Incendiary weapons drew widespread condemnation at last week’s annual meeting of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW), but interventions by Russia and the United States will keep the issue off the agenda next year. Almost all states parties that spoke on the topic condemned recent use in Syria and pushed for further multilateral discussions. But Russia and the US insisted that existing international…

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