Cablegate: Canadian Receipt of New U.S. Policy On Cluster

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SUBJECT: CANADIAN RECEIPT OF NEW U.S. POLICY ON CLUSTER
MUNITIONS

REF: STATE 73257

1. (U) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Mine Action Team Coordinator Carly Volkes expressed
appreciation for reftel demarche on July 8. Volkes noted
that Canadian delegation head Earl Turcotte and his
colleagues were in Geneva for the July 7 - 25 Convention on
Conventional Weapons (CCW), where they would want to discuss
the matter with their U.S. counterparts.

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