Brazil Not To Sign Treaty Banning Cluster Bombs

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BRASILIA, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- Brazil will not join the treaty prohibiting the manufacture, use and storage of cluster bombs, but may do so in the future "for humanitarian reasons," Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said on Wednesday.

At a hearing in the Brazilian congress, Amorim acknowledged that such a weapon "is so inhumane" that the Brazilian government has decided to reconsider its position.

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