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Cape Verde signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 4 December 1997 and ratified it on 14 May 2001. The treaty entered into force for Cape Verde on 1 November 2001. Cape Verde's initial Article 7 transparency report was due by 30 April 2002, but as of July 2002 had not yet been submitted.
Cape Verde did not attend the Third Meeting of the States Parties in September 2001 in Managua, Nicaragua, or the intersessional Standing Committee meetings in Geneva in January and May 2002. It was the only ECOWAS state that did not attend the conference on “Arms and International Human Rights: CCW and the Ottawa Convention,” in October 2001 in Abuja, Nigeria. Although Cape Verde is a State Party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW), and its Amended Protocol II, it did not attend the third annual meeting of States Parties to the Amended Protocol, or the Second CCW Review Conference, both of which were held in Geneva in December 2001.
Cape Verde cosponsored and voted in favor of UNGA Resolution 56/24M in support of the Mine Ban Treaty on 29 November 2001.
While Cape Verde has not officially declared the presence or absence of a stockpile of antipersonnel mines, an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it does not maintain a stockpile of landmines.[1] Cape Verde is not a mine-affected state.[2] Cape-Verdian communities reside in mine-affected countries like Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau.
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[1] Interview with Luís Dupret, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 27 May 2000.
[2] See Landmine Monitor Report 2001, p. 62.
