least 20 kg are also excluded. A limited number of prohibited weapons and submunitions can be acquired and kept for training in, and development of, detection, clearance and destruction techniques and counter-measures. Australia, which supports the treaty, also states that the convention does not prohibit the SMArt 155 artillery shell that it has bought, which releases two self-guided self-destructing submunitions.

History

The impetus for the treaty, like that of the 1997 Ottawa Treaty

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