Cluster munitions: Finland will not sign the Oslo Treaty

(B2) The Finnish government - in agreement with the President of the Republic (Finland lives in cohabitation) - has decided. Finland will not sign the Oslo Treaty, which provides for the banning of cluster munitions, in December 2008. This position will be re-examined "when the studies on the capacity of the Finnish armed forces have been carried out as well as on the existence , the availability and cost of alternative systems". Explanation: the Finnish army made this weapon an instrument of the defense of the territory (details in the previous Article).

The Finnish government - however - is not stingy with contradictions: it supports the "universality" and the objectives of the Treaty and will participate in the implementation of the Oslo Treaty through its humanitarian demining action. At least she has the franchise advantage. Many States sign the Treaty without intending to apply it.