Reply #3: Clusterbomb manufacturers

[Ichingcarpenter]

The Convention on Cluster Munitions includes a ban on assisting anyone to make the bombs.

"We feel very strongly that assistance in production means investment. If you invest in a company, you're considered to assist the production of these (bombs)," Roos Boer, one of the report's authors, said at the launch of the study.

The report said: "Financial institutions should develop policies that exclude all financial links with companies involved in producing cluster munitions."

It added: "Policies should not be narrowed to refusing project financing for cluster munitions."