U.S. to no longer produce anti-personnel landmines [View all]

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Source: Reuters

The United States announced on Friday that it will no longer produce or seek to acquire anti-personnel landmines, deadly weapons that the United Nations says results in many civilian casualties.

A White House statement said the United States will not seek to replace expiring stockpiles of landmines. The announcement was made in Maputo, Mozambique, by the U.S. delegation attending a conference to review compliance with the Ottawa Convention, a global Mine Ban Treaty which became international law in 1999.
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The White House said the United States is pursuing solutions that would ultimately allow the United States to accede to the Ottawa Convention.

Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/06/27/uk-usa-landmines-obama-idUKKBN0F218220140627

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That's a bit of good news. About time the US signed the treaty.