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Trinidad and Tobago’s High Commissioner to Canada Robert Sabga signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 4 December 1997. At the signing ceremony, he said, “After signature, our countries are faced with the real challenge of implementation of the measures outlined in the Convention. This Conference can only be deemed successful when all countries participating in the process to this point which are engaged in the production, use and/or transfer of antipersonnel mines cease these operations and ensure no further engagement through vigorous enactment of national legislation.”[1]
Trinidad and Tobago ratified the treaty on 27 April 1998, the eleventh country to do so. It has not yet enacted national implementation legislation. Trinidad and Tobago has never produced, imported, stockpiled, or used antipersonnel landmines and it is not mine-affected.[2] Trinidad and Tobago participated in the Ottawa Process by endorsing the Brussels Declaration, voting in favor of the 1996 and 1997 UN General Assembly resolutions, supporting the CARICOM/CENTAM declaration and supporting, by consensus, key OAS General Assembly resolutions.
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[1]Statement to the Signing Ceremony by His Excellency Robert Sabga, Trinidad and Tobago’s High Commissioner to Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 2-4 December 1997.
[2]Response to the Landmine Monitor questionnaire completed by the Legal and Marine Affairs Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Trinidad and Tobago, 26 February 1999.
