Action Alert for India and Pakistan: Stop Laying Mines, India

(Monday 07 January 2002 Washington DC) Following reports in the media and from Indian and Pakistan Campaign to Ban Landmines colleagues that Indian troops are laying new antipersonnel landmines along the border with Pakistan, ICBL condemned this use, sent an Open Letter to Prime Minister Vajpayee urging India to refrain from laying antipersonnel landmines and to declare this publicly, and issued this Action Alert.

In addition to an Open Letter to Indian Prime Minister Vajpayee, ICBL has also written Pakistan's President Musharraf, calling for clarification on whether Pakistan has laid new landmines on the border and urging Pakistan to state publicly that they will refrain from using landmines.

We urge you to:

• Write, fax, call or visit the Ambassador of India in your country NOW and let them know that using landmines is unacceptable.
• If there is no embassy in your country, write the Prime Minister, the Foreign Minister or the Ambassador to the UN (all contacts listed below).
• Also contact Pakistan embassies to urge them not to use landmines and to declare it publicly.
• Urge your government, particularly if it is a party to the treaty, to oppose any use of antipersonnel landmines by India or Pakistan.

For more information, contact the Indian and Pakistan CBLs:

Indian CBL:SPAMFLTER@SPATMFLTERnagpur.dot.net.in">iipdepSPAMFLTER@SPATMFLTERnagpur.dot.net.in
Pakistan CBL: SPAMFLTER@SPATMFLTERicbl.org">pakistanSPAMFLTER@SPATMFLTERicbl.org
or Sue Wixley, ICBL at SPAMFLTER@SPATMFLTERicbl.org">wixleySPAMFLTER@SPATMFLTERicbl.org

Below is contact information for government leaders of India and Pakistan.

INDIA

Click here for a list and contact details of Indian missions worldwide.

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Rashtrapati Bavan
New Delhi 110004
India
fax: +91-11-301-6857 +91-11-301-9545, 91-11-972-2-664-838

Mr. Jaswant Singh, Minister of Foreign Affairs fax +91-11-301-0700
George Fernandes, Minister of Defense fax +91-11-379-3397
Ambassador Kamalesh Sharma, Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations
UN Mission Fax. + 1 212 490 9656 email: indiaSPAMFLTER@SPATMFLTERun.int

PAKISTAN

For Pakistan, a list of missions worldwide can be found here

Other leaders are:
President Pervez Musharraf
Office of the President
Constitution Ave.
Islamabad
Pakistan
Fax: 92-51-920-3938, 92-51-920-1968,92-51-811390

Mr. Abdus Sattar, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Fax: +92-51-920-7217 +92-51-920-2518 +92-51-920-0420 SPAMFLTER@SPATMFLTERisb.sdnpk.org">pakfmSPAMFLTER@SPATMFLTERisb.sdnpk.org

Ambassador Shamshad Ahmad, Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the United Nations
UN Mission Fax. + 1 212 744 7348 SPAMFLTER@SPATMFLTERun.int">pakistanSPAMFLTER@SPATMFLTERun.int