The Ottawa Treaty: Trump has to be stopped from removing landmine protections GlobeDebate
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Lloyd Axworthy is a former foreign affairs minister in the Jean Chrétien government. John English is a former parliamentarian and special ambassador on landmines.
That specious reasoning was debunked effectively during the debate on the landmine treaty negotiations in the 1990s, when the International Committee of the Red Cross, supported by senior U.S. army commanders such as lieutenant-general James Hollingsworth, former U.S. commander in Korea, pointed out that the weapons were a huge risk to civilians and soldiers alike.
Neither the President nor his acolytes take into account the effectiveness and impact of the 1997 United Nations Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, known as the Ottawa Treaty, to which 164 countries are signatory, the largest membership of any disarmament agreement.
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