Translation of "Konventionelle waffen" in English

The UN register for conventional weapons should be opened to this category of weapons.

Nobody worries about conventional weapons.

In all of the accounts, conventional weapons have no effect on the Foretold.

It was supposed to be for conventional weapons.

After all, people in Syria are still being killed every day by conventional weapons.

The Working Party on Conventional Arms Exports works on issues concerning export controls for conventional arms.

There is therefore a very dangerous situation with regard to both conventional weapons and nuclear weapons in this region.

This is, of course, of the utmost importance if we want to curb conventional weapons.

Weapons of mass destruction, nuclear bombs in particular, certainly cause more damage faster than conventional armaments do.

A joint expert working group on conventional arms and a joint research centre on conventional arms will be established.

I helped research this report. lf they stick with conventional weapons, we are looking at a complete collapse of their entire military within six months.

Chinese arms trade has involved conventional, missile, nuclear, and chemical weapons.

Many countries around the world have dumped chemical as well as conventional weapons in the ocean.

Our text calls on those countries (including, for example, Poland) to take action to comply with requirements (such as a significant reduction in the number of unexploded munitions and a smaller scatter range) which, as a result, reduce potential losses amongst civilian populations - as part of an additional protocol to the Geneva Convention on Conventional Weapons.

We were also able, at that conference, to record a small success, inasmuch as the disarmament conference on conventional weapons, which was happening in Geneva at the same time, finally agreed to appoint a coordinator for landmine clearance, something that had been on the agenda for a long time.

Finally, Mr Titley proposes cooperating with the United States - and why not, I might add, with Russia and China too? - in order to devise a common approach to conventional arms export controls similar to that established for chemical weapons control.

I also call from this platform on all countries, especially those who have signed the UN Convention on Conventional Weapons, to apply an immediate moratorium at their next conference and pronounce a definitive ban on the use, production and supply of these weapons.

Weapons and ammunition that harm the civilian population are in contravention of the Geneva Convention and the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

The Council has not addressed the question of the application of the protocol to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons on non-detectable fragments to which all the Member States are party.

It is important to take account of the enlargement of the Union in this connection too, as the considerable market in conventional weapons still focuses on the countries included in the accession now and those countries bordering on them.

These weapons are, in any case, under consideration by the parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) – a highly responsible group which is examining matters such as detectability, fuse design and self-destruction in order to minimise collateral effects.

Such a treaty on conventional weapons would be based on states’ existing responsibilities under international law and would establish transfer criteria that are consistent with internationally accepted standards of human rights and humanitarian law.

Similarly, they have neither ratified the Mine Ban Convention nor signed the Third Protocol to the Certain Conventional Weapons Convention (CCWC), and they have also revived the Star Wars programme.