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Home | All Candidates | Arms Trade Treaty | Arms Sales to Saudi Coalition | Firearms Export Oversight | Mine Ban Treaty

Mine Ban Treaty

On January 31, 2020, the White House issued a statement announcing a new landmine policy (see resource page). That policy rejects Obama-era policy that allowed for possible use of landmines only in the Korean peninsula, with no further use or production, and the goal of joining the Mine Ban Treaty. The new policy removes that geographic restriction and allows for the use upon the authority of Combatant Commanders of "advanced, non-persistent landmines" that "will be designed and constructed to self-destruct in 30 days or less after emplacement and will possess a back-up self-deactivation feature." The Mine Ban Treaty bans the use, production, and transfer of victim-activated anti-personnel landmines, and currently has 164 states parties, including all NATO members aside from the United States.

Experts to contact*: Mary Wareham (Human Rights Watch), Jeff Abramson (Arms Control Association), Rachel Stohl (Stimson Center), Adotei Akwei (Amnesty International USA)
*  These experts are available to discuss this issue and may have additional/alternate assessments. 
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 have called for reversing the Trump administration's approach, but not indicated explicitly that they support the Mine Ban Treaty. 

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