Ukrainian military serviceman Igor Ovcharruck holds a defused cluster bomb from an MSLR missile, among a display of pieces of rockets used by Russian army, that a Ukrainian munitions expert said did not explode on impact, in the region of Kharkiv, Ukraine, October 21, 2022. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne 

A road sign damaged by cluster munition is seen following a military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine June 10, 2022. The sign reads 'Stop'. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado 

A road sign damaged by cluster munition is seen following a military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine June 10, 2022. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado 

An effigy used at school areas is seen damaged by cluster munition following a military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine June 10, 2022. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado 

A damaged window by cluster munition is seen following a military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine June 10, 2022. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado 

An emptied cluster munition container is seen stuck in the ground following a military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine June 10, 2022. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado 

An emptied cluster munition container is seen stuck in the ground following a military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine June 10, 2022. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado 

An emptied cluster munition container is seen stuck in the ground following a military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine June 10, 2022. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado 

The remains of cluster munitions container in the rebel-held area in Deraa, Syria July 26, 2017. Picture taken July 26, 2017. REUTERS/Alaa al-Faqir 

Cluster bombs are pictured in a museum installation at the Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise (COPE) Visitor Centre for victims of amputations due to accidents with the many rounds of unexploded ordnance remaining in the Laotian countryside following the Vietnam War era, on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit, in Vientiane, Laos, September 7, 2016. REUTERS/Jorge Silva 

Cluster bombs are pictured in a museum installation at the Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise (COPE) Visitor Centre for victims of amputations due to accidents with the many rounds of unexploded ordnance remaining in the Laotian countryside following the Vietnam War era, on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit, in Vientiane, Laos, September 7, 2016. REUTERS/Jorge Silva 

Addressing the legacy of war in Laos will be a focus of U.S. President Barack Obama's trip this week to the country's capital, Vientiane, for a meeting with Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders and an East Asia Summit. Obama, who will become the first sitting president of the United States to visit Laos, is expected to announce more funding to help clear leftover bombs and conduct Laos' first national survey on unexploded ordnance. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. warplanes dropped more than 270 million cluster munitions on Laos, one-third of which did not explode, according to the Lao National Regulatory Authority for UXO (NRA). The bombings were part of a CIA-run, secret operation aimed at destroying the North Vietnamese supply routes along the Ho Chi Minh trail and wiping out its communist allies. They also left a trail of devastation in Laos, which U.S. planes used as a dumping ground for bombs when their original target was unavailable and planes couldn't land with explosives. REUTERS/Jorge Silva SEARCH "LAOS BOMBS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

MIDEAST-CRISIS/RUSSIA SYRIA - Map of Syria locating Russian targets on civilians and reported cluster munitions in the country. (SIN06) 

A civil defence member looks at one of the cluster bomblets that activists say were fired by the Russian air force on Maasran town, in the south of Idlib province, Syria, October 7, 2015. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi 

Unexploded cluster bomblets are seen inside the remains of a cluster munition that activists say was fired by the Russian air force on Maasran town, in the south of Idlib province, Syria, October 7, 2015. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi 

A civil defence member gathers unexploded cluster bombs that activists say were fired by the Russian air force at Maasran town, in the south of Idlib province, Syria October 7, 2015. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi 

A resident rides his bicycle near what activists said was an exploded cluster bomb shell in the town of Douma, eastern Ghouta in Damascus November 5, 2015. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

An emptied cluster munitions container is seen stuck in the ground outside apartment blocks in the town of Yenakiieve February 23, 2015. Kiev accused pro-Russian rebels of opening fire with rockets and artillery at villages in southeastern Ukraine on Monday, all but burying a week-old European-brokered ceasefire deal. REUTERS/Baz Ratner(UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT MILITARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Pro-Russian rebels stand nest to remains of munitions, which locals said was used by Ukrainian government forces and placed for display along a road, near the town of Makievka, eastern Ukraine, October 22, 2014. Evidence collected by Human Rights Watch suggests government forces have used cluster munitions in eastern Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists may also have done so, the New York-based watchdog said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (UKRAINE - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY POLITICS) 

Passers-by look at remains of munitions, which locals said was used by Ukrainian government forces and placed for display along a road, near the town of Makievka, eastern Ukraine, October 22, 2014. Evidence collected by Human Rights Watch suggests government forces have used cluster munitions in eastern Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists may also have done so, the New York-based watchdog said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) 

Passers-by look at remains of munitions, which locals said was used by Ukrainian government forces and placed for display along a road, near the town of Makievka, eastern Ukraine, October 22, 2014. Evidence collected by Human Rights Watch suggests government forces have used cluster munitions in eastern Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists may also have done so, the New York-based watchdog said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (UKRAINE - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Passers-by take photos near remains of munitions, which locals said was used by Ukrainian government forces and placed for display along a road, near the town of Makievka, eastern Ukraine, October 22, 2014. Evidence collected by Human Rights Watch suggests government forces have used cluster munitions in eastern Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists may also have done so, the New York-based watchdog said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) 

Passers-by look at remains of munitions, which locals said was used by Ukrainian government forces and placed for display along a road, near the town of Makievka, eastern Ukraine, October 22, 2014. Evidence collected by Human Rights Watch suggests government forces have used cluster munitions in eastern Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists may also have done so, the New York-based watchdog said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) 

A bus drives past remains of munitions, which locals said was used by Ukrainian government forces and placed for display along a road, near the town of Makievka, eastern Ukraine, October 22, 2014. Evidence collected by Human Rights Watch suggests government forces have used cluster munitions in eastern Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists may also have done so, the New York-based watchdog said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A pro-Russian rebel looks at remains of munitions, which locals said was used by Ukrainian government forces and placed for display along a road, near the town of Makievka, eastern Ukraine, October 22, 2014. Evidence collected by Human Rights Watch suggests government forces have used cluster munitions in eastern Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists may also have done so, the New York-based watchdog said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) 

Visitors walk on the Place des Nations near the "Broken Chair" installation outside the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva October 17 2014. In 1997 Swiss artist Daniel Berset was asked by the NGO Handicap International to create an installation to ask U.N. member States to sign the Treaty to ban land mines and other cluster munitions. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse (SWITZERLAND - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY ENTERTAINMENT)

A local resident displays a dud unit of a cluster munition in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, August 25, 2014. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT SOCIETY) 

A medic from the Lebanese Welfare Association for the Handicapped assists a disabled foreign visitor and cluster bomb victim trying on a prosthetic limb at the rehabilitation centre in Sarafand, southern Lebanon, September 12, 2011. The visit is organized by The Lebanon Mine Action Center during the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which opened on Monday. REUTERS/ Ali Hashisho (LEBANON - Tags: CONFLICT HEALTH) 

A medic from the Lebanese Welfare Association for the Handicapped displays to visitors an artificial hand at the rehabilitation centre in Sarafand, southern Lebanon, September 12, 2011. The visit is organized by The Lebanon Mine Action Center during the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which opened on Monday. REUTERS/ Ali Hashisho (LEBANON - Tags: CONFLICT HEALTH) 

A medic from the Lebanese Welfare Association for the Handicapped assists a disabled foreign visitor and cluster bomb victim to try on prosthetic legs at the rehabilitation centre in Sarafand, southern Lebanon, September 12, 2011. The visit is organized by The Lebanon Mine Action Center during the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which opened on Monday. REUTERS/ Ali Hashisho (LEBANON - Tags: CONFLICT HEALTH) 

A medic from the Lebanese Welfare Association for the Handicapped assists a disabled foreign visitor and cluster bomb victim to try on a prosthetic limb at the rehabilitation centre in Sarafand, southern Lebanon, September 12, 2011. The visit is organized by The Lebanon Mine Action Center during the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which opened on Monday. REUTERS/ Ali Hashisho (LEBANON - Tags: CONFLICT HEALTH) 

A disabled foreign visitor and cluster bomb victim looks at a prosthesis inside the manufacturing workshop of the Lebanese Welfare Association for the Handicapped in Sarafand, southern Lebanon, September 12, 2011. The visit is organized by The Lebanon Mine Action Center during the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which opened on Monday. REUTERS/ Ali Hashisho (LEBANON - Tags: CONFLICT HEALTH) 

Brigadier General Mohamed Fahmi, (R) director of the Lebanon Mine Action Center, gestures to bomb casings on display in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, September 12, 2011, during a field tour organized by The Lebanon Mine Action Center. The tour formed part of the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which opened on Monday. REUTERS/ Kamel Jaber (LEBANON - Tags: MILITARY) 

Lebanese army mine disposal experts practice a drill demonstrating how to search for cluster bombs at a field in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, September 12, 2011. The drill is organized by The Lebanon Mine Action Center, and was demonstrated during the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which opened on Monday. REUTERS/Kamel Jaber (LEBANON - Tags: MILITARY) 

Lebanese army mine disposal experts, helped by civil defence members from an Islamic organization, practice during a drill demonstrating how to render help to a colleague during an accidental mine detonation as part of a clearing operation, at a field in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, September 12, 2011. The drill is organized by The Lebanon Mine Action Center, and was demonstrated during the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which opened on Monday. REUTERS/Kamel Jaber (LEBANON - Tags: MILITARY) 

Lebanese army mine disposal experts, helped by civil defence members from an Islamic organization, practice during a drill demonstrating the evacuation of a colleague during an accidental mine detonation as part of a clearing operation, at a field in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, September 12, 2011. The drill is organized by The Lebanon Mine Action Center, and was demonstrated during the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which opened on Monday. REUTERS/Kamel Jaber (LEBANON - Tags: MILITARY) 

Lebanese army mine disposal experts practice during a drill demonstrating the evacuation of a colleague during an accidental mine detonation as part of a clearing operation, at a field in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, September 12, 2011. The drill is organized by The Lebanon Mine Action Center, and was demonstrated during the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which opened on Monday. REUTERS/Kamel Jaber (LEBANON - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY) 

A local villager watches a ceremony marking the demolition of the last cluster of munitions found near the Georgian and South Ossetian de facto border in the village of Variani, some 100 km (68 miles) northwest of Tbilisi June 22, 2010. Non-governmental organization Norwegian People's Aid finished demining operations in Georgia and has cleared about 6 million square meters from cluster munitions. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili (GEORGIA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY) 

People attend a ceremony to mark the demolition of the last cluster of munitions found near the Georgian and South Ossetian de facto border in the village of Variani, some 100 km (68 miles) northwest of Tbilisi June 22, 2010. Non-governmental organization Norwegian People's Aid finished demining operations in Georgia and has cleared about 6 million square meters from cluster munitions. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili (GEORGIA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY) 

Jonathon Guthrie (R), a program manager of Norwegian People's Aid, and Norwegian ambassador to Georgia Jon Ramberg hold a button to detonate the last cluster of munitions found near the Georgian and South Ossetian de facto border in the village of Variani, some 100 km (68 miles) northwest of Tbilisi June 22, 2010. Non-governmental organization Norwegian People's Aid finished demining operations in Georgia and has cleared about 6 million square meters from cluster munitions. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili (GEORGIA - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY) 

Officials watch an explosion to demolish the last cluster of munitions found near the Georgian and South Ossetian de facto border in the village of Variani, some 100 km (68 miles) northwest of Tbilisi June 22, 2010. Non-governmental organisation Norwegian People's Aid finished demining operations in Georgia and has cleared about 6 million square meters from cluster munitions. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili (GEORGIA - Tags: MILITARY POLITICS) 

CLUSTERBOMBS-US/ - Colour coded world map showing countries using cluster bombs, with 3D diagram detailing the bomb and its function. Previously transmitted on 19/05/2008 

CLUSTERBOMBS-US/ - Colour coded world map showing countries using cluster bombs, with 3D diagram detailing the bomb and its function. Previously transmitted on 19/05/2008 

United Nations representative Argelino Garzon (L) of Colombia and Colombian military forces commander Freddy Padilla watch as controlled CB-250k cluster bombs are destroyed at a military base in Marandu November 24, 2009. Colombia destroyed 31 cluster bombs in accordance with the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the army said. REUTERS/JavierCasella-Mindefensa/Handout (COLOMBIA MILITARY) 

Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Fouad Siniora (front) and UAE Ambassador to Lebanon Rahma Hussein al-Zaabi tour an exhibition showing pictures of cluster bombs victims during a ceremony in Beirut marking the end of UAE's de-mining program in southern Lebanon October 21, 2009. The program began in Lebanon following the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel which left thousands of unexploded ordinance and munitions in southern Lebanon. REUTERS/ Sharif Karim (LEBANON POLITICS CONFLICT) 

Oldemiro Baloi (L), Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Mozambique speaks in front of the Bundestag building in Berlin June 24, 2009. Baoli is in Berlin to attend the June 25-26 international conference on the destruction of cluster munitions stockpiles. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski (GERMANY POLITICS) 

Participants of the international conference on the destruction of cluster munitions stockpiles pose with the bomb victims in front of the Bundestag building in Berlin June 24, 2009. Berlin hosts on June 25-26 an international conference on the destruction of cluster munitions stockpiles. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski (GERMANY POLITICS CONFLICT) 

Oldemiro Baloi (L), Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Mozambique greets Serbian cluster bomb victim Branislav Kapetanovic in front of the Bundestag building in Berlin June 24, 2009. Berlin hosts on June 25-26 an international conference on the destruction of cluster munitions stockpiles. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski (GERMANY POLITICS CONFLICT) 

A soldier from a bomb disposal unit inspects a dismantled CB-250k cluster bomb at a military base in Marandua May 7, 2009. Colombia destroyed its last 41 cluster bombs in accordance with the Oslo Pact, the army said on Thursday. REUTERS/John Vizcaino (COLOMBIA MILITARY) 

A soldier from a bomb disposal unit inspects a dismantled CB-250k cluster bomb at the military base in Marandua May 7, 2009. Colombia destroyed its last 41 cluster bombs in accordance with the Oslo Pact, the army said on Thursday. REUTERS/John Vizcaino (COLOMBIA MILITARY) 

Members of ActionAid, an international humanitarian and development agency, hold signs during a demonstration in Srinagar January 14, 2009. Various Kashmiri civil society organizations and peace activists held a peaceful demonstration on Wednesday, where in they called upon India and Pakistan to sign and ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) and the Ottawa Treaty on anti-personnel mines, according to a press statement. REUTERS/Danish Ismail (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR) 

A member of ActionAid, an international humanitarian and development agency, holds a sign during a demonstration in Srinagar January 14, 2009. Various Kashmiri civil society organizations and peace activists held a peaceful demonstration on Wednesday, where in they called upon India and Pakistan to sign and ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) and the Ottawa Treaty on anti-personnel mines, according to a press statement. The demonstration was organized by ActionAid. REUTERS/Danish Ismail (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR) 

A member of ActionAid, an international humanitarian, and development agency, holds a sign during a demonstration in Srinagar January 14, 2009. Various Kashmiri civil society organizations and peace activists held a peaceful demonstration on Wednesday, where in they called upon India and Pakistan to sign and ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) and the Ottawa Treaty on anti-personnel mines, according to a press statement. The demonstration was organized by ActionAid. REUTERS/Danish Ismail (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR) 

Members of ActionAid, an international humanitarian, and development agency, hold signs during a demonstration in Srinagar January 14, 2009. Various Kashmiri civil society organizations and peace activists held a peaceful demonstration on Wednesday, where in they called upon India and Pakistan to sign and ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) and the Ottawa Treaty on anti-personnel mines, according to a press statement. The demonstration was organized by ActionAid. REUTERS/Danish Ismail (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR) 

Members of ActionAid, an international humanitarian, and development agency, hold signs during a demonstration in Srinagar January 14, 2009. Various Kashmiri civil society organizations and peace activists held a peaceful demonstration on Wednesday, where in they called upon India and Pakistan to sign and ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) and the Ottawa Treaty on anti-personnel mines, according to a press statement. The demonstration was organized by ActionAid. REUTERS/Danish Ismail (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR) 

Members of ActionAid, an international humanitarian and development agency, hold signs during a demonstration in Srinagar January 14, 2009. Various Kashmiri civil society organizations and peace activists held a peaceful demonstration on Wednesday, where in they called upon India and Pakistan to sign and ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) and the Ottawa Treaty on anti-personnel mines, according to a press statement. REUTERS/Danish Ismail (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR) 

ARMS-CLUSTER/ - World map locating nations stockpiling, producing or using cluster munitions. With diagrams explaining how such weapons work ahead of the signing of a new treaty on Dec. 3 by 107 nations banning the weapons. RNGS. (SIN06) 

Members of an all-woman battle area clearance team, trained by Norwegian People's Aid, search for cluster bomblets in a field near the town of Tibnin in south Lebanon November 26, 2008. Israel inadvertently galvanised a campaign to ban cluster munitions by raining bomblets over south Lebanon in the last 72 hours of its 2006 war with Hezbollah fighters. A treaty banning cluster bombs is due to be signed in Norway next week. REUTERS/ Ali Hashisho (LEBANON)
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Members of an all-woman battle area clearance team, trained by Norwegian People's Aid, search for cluster bomblets in a field near the town of Tibnin in south Lebanon November 26, 2008. Israel inadvertently galvanised a campaign to ban cluster munitions by raining bomblets over south Lebanon in the last 72 hours of its 2006 war with Hezbollah fighters. A treaty banning cluster bombs is due to be signed in Norway next week. REUTERS/ Ali Hashisho (LEBANON)
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