Swiss Ambassador Christine Schraner Burg

Swiss Ambassador Christine Schraner Burgener (Deputy Head of the Directorate of Public International Law) attends the signing of a treaty banning cluster bombs in Oslo City Hall on December 3, 2008. Norway -- which played a key role in hammering out the worldwide ban on using, producing, transferring and stockpiling cluster munitions -- was the first country to sign the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM). And Laos, the country most affected by cluster bombs, was the second. The United States, Russia, China, Israel, Pakistan and India, whicha produce cluster bombs, refused to sign the treaty. AFP PHOTO / Erlend Aas / Scanpix NORWAY OUT (Photo credit should read AAS, ERLEND/AFP via Getty Images)