Landmine conference addresses progress in implementation and the need to universalize the convention as the number of new victims grows
VIENNA/GENEVA, 21 December (UN Information Service) – The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention’s Sixteenth Meeting of the States Parties (16MSP) has concluded in Vienna, Austria, recording success in stockpile destruction with Belarus announcing it had destroyed over three million stockpiled landmines bringing to 159 the number of States that no longer have destruction obligations under the …