Lithuania has argued that the move would strengthen its defenses Lithuania officially withdrew from an international treaty that bans the controversial cluster munitions on Thursday.  The Baltic state’s parliament – the Seimas – overwhelmingly voted to leave the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munition (CCM) last July. “The need to use all possibilities to strengthen deterrence and defense is the driving force behind the proposal to denounce the convention. Since Lithuania became a party to the