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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 2009, 156 countries have signed and ratified the Treaty. Poland and the Marshall Islands have signed but not ratified.thirty-seven states, including the People's Republic of China, India, Pakistan,Russia and the United States, have not signed.
Responding to a challenge issued by Canada in October 1996, on December 3rd 1997 122 countries stated their intention to implement the Treaty. Forty ratifications are required for a treaty to come into effect and become international law. The The Ottawa treaty entered into force and became binding among the 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. Click to view The Ottawa Treaty (PDF)

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