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| US Moves to Phase Out Landmines |
| US Moves to Phase Out Landmines
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 27-June-2014
12:18:18 PM |
| The United States on Friday signaled its intent to eliminate its stockpile of anti-personnel landmines and to eventually join a global treaty banning their use, boosting efforts to rid the world of the weapons.
The high-profile announcement was made at a conference in Maputo, Mozambique, which was aimed at ultimately ensuring no armed forces use anti-personnel mines (APLs) by 2025.
The number of people killed or maimed by landmines fell in 2012, the global watchdog Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor says, but was still at 4,000. In many cases, the mines are leftovers from wars that ended decades earlier.
"Today at a review conference in Maputo, Mozambique, the United States took the step of declaring it will not produce or otherwise acquire any anti-personnel landmines (APL) in the future, including to replace existing stockpiles as they expire," National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said a statement.
In 2009, Washington said it was reviewing its position on landmines but - along with rivals Russia and China - has failed to sign the Ottawa Convention that bans the use of APLs and envisions their eventual elimination.
Nuclear powers India and Pakistan have also not signed up.
Long-standing critics of the US policy say Washington's foes are waiting on the United States to move before they do likewise.
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