On July 24, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihiko Isozaki announced that Tokyo firmly supports expanding the number of parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), following the attack in Ukraine.
Cluster bombs - designed to disperse large numbers of submunitions over a wide area - have been banned by many countries due to the risk of unexploded bombs causing civilian casualties.
In 2008, 123 countries signed the 2008 Oslo Convention - an international convention banning the production, stockpiling, trade and use of these weapons. However, the United States, Russia, Ukraine, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and South Korea have not signed.
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