Holy See deplores production, use of cluster munitions
September 24, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Addressing a UN meeting on the Convention on Cluster Munitions, a Vatican diplomat said that the Holy See “deplores the fact that cluster munitions, with their extended destructive consequences on victims and land, continue to be produced, stockpiled, transferred and even used in armed conflicts.”
Archbishop Ettore Balestrero, apostolic nuncio and Permanent Observer to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva, Switzerland, said that “from a broader perspective, the vast proportion of human and economic resources allocated to armaments—with global military expenditure skyrocketing to over $2.7 trillion last year—is a matter of grave imbalance and even scandal.”
Over 100 nations have ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions, a 2008 treaty.
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