Diplomatic manoeuvres by the UK Government and others to suggest there are ‘dumb’ and ‘smart’ cluster munitions must be given short shrift – they all kill and maim.

4. Calls on the US to reconsider its February 2004 announcement that it will not join the Convention and that it will retain its 8.8 million ‘smart’ (self-destructing) anti-personnel mines for use anywhere in the world indefinitely, as well as its 1.2 million ‘dumb’ (non-self-destructing) anti-personnel mines to be used in Korea until 2010; further calls on the US not to resume the production of, trade in or use of any munitions that would meet the definition of anti-personnel mines under the Convention, including the so-called Spider system; also calls on the US to immediately cease delivery of anti-personnel mines to EU Member States ...[+++] and other friendly countries; calls on China to reconsider its production of landmines and to destroy its colossal stockpile, estimated at over 100 million antipersonnel landmines, most of them lacking self-destructing, self-deactivating or detection mechanisms; calls on Russia to cease using anti-personnel mines in its conflict in Chechnya and remove any stockpiles still at the disposal of its forces in Georgia and Tajikistan;

4. Calls on the USA to reconsider its February 2004 announcement that it will not join the Convention, that it will retain its 8.8 million "smart" (self-destructing) anti-personnel mines for use anywhere in the world indefinitely, and that it will retain its 1.2 million "dumb" (non-self-destructing) anti-personnel mines for use in Korea until 2010; further calls on the USA not to resume production, trade in or use of any munitions that would meet the definition of anti-personnel mines under the Convention, including the so-called Spider system; calls on the USA to immediately stop delivery of anti-personnel mines to EU Member States an ...[+++]d other friendly countries; calls on China to reconsider its production of landmines and to destroy its colossal stockpile estimated at over 100 million anti-personnel landmines, most of them lacking self-destructing, self-deactivating and detection mechanisms; calls on Russia to stop using anti-personnel mines in its conflict in Chechnya and remove any stockpiles still at the disposal of its forces in Georgia and Tajikistan;

4. Calls on the USA to reconsider its February 2004 announcement that it will not join the Convention, that it will retain its 8.8 million "smart" (self-destructing) anti-personnel mines for use anywhere in the world indefinitely, and that it will retain its 1.2 million "dumb" (non-self-destructing) anti-personnel mines to use in Korea until 2010; further calls on the USA not to resume production, trade in or use of any munitions that would meet the definition of anti-personnel mines under the Convention, including the so-called Spider system; calls on the USA to immediately stop delivery of anti-personnel mines to EU Member States and ...[+++] other friendly countries; calls on China to reconsider its production of landmines and to destroy its colossal stockpile estimated at over 100 million anti-personnel landmines, most of them lacking self-destructing, self-deactivating and detection mechanisms; calls on Russia to stop using anti-personnel mines in its conflict in Chechnya and remove any stockpiles still at the disposal of its forces in Georgia and Tajikistan;

We've got smart munitions, on the conventional side of the house, that have achieved extraordinary capabilities.

If you want to go down that way, it is possible to exclude certain types of smart munitions from the definition itself.