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Andorra signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997 and ratified it on 29 June 1998. At the treaty signing ceremony, the Minister of Foreign Relations pledged Andorra’s support for United Nations demining efforts, and lamented the failure of some countries to sign the treaty.[1] Although Andorra did not participate it the Ottawa Process meetings, or the treaty negotiations, Andorra voted in favor of United Nations General Assembly resolutions supporting a ban on landmines in 1996, 1997, and 1998.
Andorra does not produce, trade, use, or stockpile antipersonnel landmines. Andorra is not mine affected.[2]
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[1]Statement by His Excellency Mr. Albert Pintat, Minister of External Relations of the Principality of Andorra, Treaty Signing Ceremony of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and Their Destruction, Ottawa, 3 December 1997.
[2]Country Profiles, United Nations Demining Database, http:www.un.org.Depts/Landmine/ (Ref. 3/15/99)
