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A new Press Release from the International Conference in Lima this week: 70 countries are negociating a new treaty on cluster munitions. Both the ICBL and the Cluster Munition Coalition share similar views towards the need to ban the use of this weapon and they are advocating for the creation of a forceful treaty by 2008.
On 16 May 2007, the ICBL participated in a ceremony marking the end of the stockpile destruction programs in both Serbia and Montenegro.
In the months of March and April, members of the Indian Campaign to Ban Landmines were active promoting awareness on landmines and - for the first time in the country - cluster munitions.
The April 2007 edition of the ICBL Newsletter is now available online.
(26/04/2007, last updated: 26/04/2007) Read more »
Summaries of the plenary sessions of the ISC Meetings and ICBL Statements
Swiss-based NGO Geneva Call announces that three of the non-state armed groups active in Burma/Myanmar have signed a commitment to cease use of antipersonnel mines and to cooperate in the destruction of stockpiles and mine action programmmes.
On 26 and 27 March 2007, representatives of Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Russia, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Afghanistan met in in Almaty, Kazakhstan for the “ Mine action as a confidence building measure” workshop, in Almaty. A needed opportunity to discuss a regional approach to mines and ERW problems, and to call for more progress in adherence to the Mine Ban Treaty.
A workshop jointly organized by the ICBL and the Tajikistan Mine Action Center on 30 March 2007 showed that shortfalls in international assistance to Tajikistan were threatening mine action and victim assistance programs with strong potential for success. On 4 April, the second United Nations Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance, the two organizations issued a strong call for increased support for these programs.
Geneva, 4 April 2007- On the occasion of the UN International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) stated that the only effective and realistic way to promote mine action is to seek universal adherence to and implementation of the Antipersonnel Mine Ban Treaty.
On 30 March 2007, at the UN Headquarters in New York 81 countries and the European Community signed the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
An ICBL advocacy mission to encourage accession to the Mine Ban Treaty received positive responses in both countries, leading to hopes that they could be joining the treaty in the near future.
The fourth regional conference on landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) in the Middle East was organized in Damascus, Syria, in March 2007 by the Arab Network for Research on Landmines and ERW.
Representatives from governments, international agencies and civil society met in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on 15 March 2007, to attend a forum on taking action against cluster munitions in South East Asia. The forum - the first of its kind - was organized jointly by the ICBL and Cluster Munitions Coalition (CMC).
After leaving Lima, Colombian cyclists travelling from Bogota tu Ushuaia, Argentina, on a mission to spread awareness about the landmine situation in their country and the world, continue their journey south through Peru and Chile. They feel that through their ride - sponsored by the Colombian Campaign to Ban Landmines - they are achieving their goal of generating awareness about the antipersonnel mine problem in individual countries and in the world, using Colombia as an example.