International

An enquiry into the Netherlands' political and military support for the attack on Iraq will happen - sooner or later. So said SP foreign affairs spokesman Harry van Bommel during today's debate on the position of the Netherlands in relation to the disastrous war.

SP Member of Parliament Krista van Velzen will tomorrow, in the name of the SP, propose a new anti-cluster-bomb law. The law would ban the use, possession, transport and production of any form of cluster-bomb type munition. Cluster bombs are extremely controversial because they cause so many civilian casualties, including during the period after an armed conflict has ended. “In effect they're like land-mines,” explains Ms Van Velzen. “We've already banned those and it's time we banned cluster bombs too.”