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Press Releases » Palestine Accedes to Convention on Cluster Munitions

On 2 January Palestine became the 116th state to join the Convention on Cluster Munitions, after depositing its instrument of accession with United Nations authorities in New York. This makes Palestine the first state to join the Convention in 2015, and the 89th state party.

Read the Cluster Munition Coalition's news story here.

See the Monitor's Palestine cluster munition ban policy profile from August 2014 (to be updated later this year).