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LM Report 2001

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TURKMENISTAN

Turkmenistan signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997 and ratified it on 19 January 1998. The treaty entered into force for Turkmenistan on 1 March 1999. Turkmenistan has not yet passed national legislation or other measures implementing the treaty, as required by Article 9. Turkmenistan has not submitted its transparency reports as required by Article 7. Reports were due by 27 August 1999, 30 April 2000 and 30 April 2001.

The government did not send delegations to the First or Second Meetings of States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty, in May 1999 and September 2000, respectively. Nor has Turkmenistan participated in any of the intersessional Standing Committee meetings. It has not attended any of the regional meetings on landmines over the past few years. Turkmenistan voted in favor of the November 2000 UN General Assembly resolution in support of the Mine Ban Treaty, as it had in previous years. Turkmenistan is not a party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

Turkmenistan is not believed to have ever produced or exported landmines. A government official said Turkmenistan “has a small stockpile of landmines,”^[1] likely inherited from the USSR. It is not known if the government has taken any steps toward stockpile destruction. The deadline for Turkmenistan to complete destruction of its antipersonnel mine stockpile is 1 March 2003.

The government has declared that there are no uncleared landmines in Turkmenistan.^[2] Turkmenistan is not known to have contributed to any international mine action programs. There are no reports of landmine casualties.

^[1] Essen Aidogdyev, Counselor, Permanent Mission of Turkmenistan to the United Nations, New York, letter to Human Rights Watch, N051/'99, 18 March 1999.
^[2] Ibid.