Glover Criticizes U.S. on Land Mine Treaty

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GENEVA -- Danny Glover criticized the "arrogance and dismissiveness" of the U.S. government, expressing regret that his own country has yet to sign a 144-nation treaty to eliminate the use of land mines.

Speaking on his return from Ethiopia, where he represented the U.N. children's agency on a three-day visit to heavily mined areas near the border with Eritrea, the 57-year-old actor said he felt "a sense of embarrassment that my own country has not signed the Ottawa Treaty."

"It smells of a certain kind of arrogance and dismissiveness," Glover, star of the "Lethal Weapon" films, told reporters Monday at the United Nations' Geneva offices.

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