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MALTA

Key developments since May 2000: Malta ratified the Mine Ban Treaty on 7 May 2001. It will enter into force on 1 November 2001.

The Sovereign Military Order of Malta signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 4 December 1997. On 4 April 2001, the Minister for Foreign Affairs signed the instrument of ratification, which was deposited with the United Nations Secretary-General on 7 May 2001. No declaration, interpretation or other qualifying document was deposited with the instrument of ratification.^[1] Ratification of the Mine Ban Treaty was published in the Government Gazette on 27 April 2001.^[2] The Mine Ban Treaty will enter into force for Malta on 1 November 2001.

Malta participated as an observer in the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty in September 2000, and also attended the intersessional Standing Committee meetings in December 2000 and May 2001. In November 2000, Malta voted in favor of UN General Assembly Resolution 55/33V in support of the Mine Ban Treaty.

Malta is a State Party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons and its original Protocol II, but has not ratified Amended Protocol II. Malta attended as an observer the Second Annual Conference of States Parties to Amended Protocol II in December 2000. Malta is believed not to possess, produce, transfer, or use antipersonnel landmines and is not mine-affected.

^[1] Email from Giovanni Miceli, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 21 May 2001.
^[2] Legal Notice 97 of 2001, Government Gazette No. 17,087, 27 April 2001.