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LM Report 2001

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HOLY SEE

The Holy See signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 4 December 1997, ratified it on 17 February 1998, and it entered into force for the Holy See on 1 March 1999. The Holy See attended the Second Meeting of States Parties in September 2000 and the meetings of the intersessional Standing Committees in December 2000 and May 2001. The Holy See is a party to Amended Protocol II of the Convention on Conventional Weapons and participated in the Second Conference of States Parties to the Amended Protocol in December 2000. In a statement to the UN General Assembly, Archbishop Martino stated, “Some major countries are still outside the treaty, and the Holy See appeals to them to join this important movement in the world community to avert even more human suffering by so many innocent victims of warfare.”^[1]

The Holy See submitted its initial Article 7 report on 28 August 1999. It has not submitted annual updates in April 2000 or April 2001. The Holy See does not possess, produce, transfer, or use antipersonnel mines and is not mine-affected. The Holy See contributed $10,000 in 2000 to the UN Voluntary Trust for Assistance in Mine Action.

^[1] Statement of Archbishop Renato R. Martino, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations General Assembly, New York, 6 October 2000.