In Geneva, the annual conference for a global ban on land-mines opened Monday with calls for new limits on the use of cluster bombs. The Swiss Foundation for Mine Action says new rules are needed in light of Israel’s recent bombardment of Lebanon.

• Swiss Foundation for Mine Action Director Hansjorg Eberle: “In Lebanon unfortunately from what we know, in the last few days of the war, Israel must have used massive amounts of cluster bombs, so Lebanon already has a residual landmine problem from previous wars, but on top of it now it also has a massive cluster bomb problem.”

The conference is also calling on forty remaining countries to sign the international treaty banning line mines, including China, Russia and the United States.