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1997: the year of a treaty banning anti-personnel mines?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Peter Herby
Peter Herby*
Affiliation:
Adviser Legal Division, ICRC
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Following widespread disappointment with the modest amendments made in 1996 to Protocol II relating to landmines, of the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), hopes have risen that 1997 may see the adoption and signing of a new international treaty prohibiting the production, export, transfer and use of anti-personnel landmines. Although such a treaty might not attract universal adherence at the outset, it would nevertheless establish a significant international legal norm and represent a major advance towards the ICRC's goal of bringing the scourge of landmines to an end.

Type
International Committee of the Red Cross
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 37 , Issue 317 , April 1997 , pp. 192 - 197
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1997

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