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LM Report 2001

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QATAR

Key developments since May 2000: Qatar revealed for the first time that it has a stockpile of antipersonnel mines for training purposes. Qatar has still not submitted its initial Article 7 report, due in September 1999.

Qatar signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 4 December 1997, ratified on 13 October 1998 and the treaty entered into force on 1 April 1999. It is not known if Qatar has enacted national implementation legislation. Qatar voted in favor of UN General Assembly Resolution 55/33V, as it had done on similar pro-ban resolutions in previous years.

Qatar attended the Second Meeting of States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty in September 2000, with a delegation consisting of two military officers. Qatar did not participate in the intersessional Standing Committee meetings. Qatar has not submitted its initial Article 7 transparency report, due by 27 September 1999, or any subsequent annual reports. Qatar is not party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Qatar is not believed to have ever used, produced, or exported antipersonnel mines. Qatari military officers told Landmine Monitor in September 2000 that Qatar possesses a small stockpile of antipersonnel mines for training purposes.^[1] Previously, Landmine Monitor was unaware that Qatar possessed antipersonnel mines. The size and composition of the stockpile is not known.

The United States has 216 artillery-delivered ADAM projectiles containing 7,776 antipersonnel mines stored at Camp As Saliyah as part of US Army Pre-Positioned Stocks Five (APS-5). ^[2] Another 142 US Air Force Gator air-delivered mixed munitions containing 3,126 antipersonnel mines are believed to be stored at Al Udeid.^[3] The deadline for Qatar to eliminate its own stockpile (except those retained under Article 3 for training purposes), as well as any US stocks that are under the jurisdiction or control of Qatar, is 1 April 2003.

Qatar is not mine-affected. In the past, Qatar donated to the Slovenian International Trust Fund, but no donations or in-kind contributions to mine action were recorded during the reporting period.

^[1] Interview with Colonel Hassan Al Mohandi, Geneva, Switzerland, 13 September 2000.
^[2] US Army General Tommy R. Franks, Commander of US Central Command, testified to the readiness of the equipment in written testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, 22 March 2001, pp. 35-36. See also Landmine Monitor Report 2000, pp. 901-902.
^[3] Ibid.