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The Ottawa Treaty
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The Ottawa Treaty or the Mine Ban Treaty, formally the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, bans completely all anti-personnel landmines (AP-mines).

As of April 2007, 153 countries have signed and ratified the Treaty. Poland and the Marshall Islands have signed but not ratified. Forty states, including the People's Republic of China, India, Russia and the United States, have not signed.

Responding to a challenge issued by Canada, on December 3rd 1997 122 countries stated their intention to implement the Treaty. The Ottawa Treaty required forty ratifications to come into effect and become international law. The treaty entered into force and became binding among the forty ratifying states on 1 March 1999. After that date, each additional country becomes bound six months after its instrument is deposited. At that point the country is considered to be a party to the treaty.

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