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Key developments since May 2001: Domestic implementation legislation had been drafted and is awaiting approval by the Cabinet of Ministers. Seychelles has not yet submitted its initial Article 7 transparency report, which was due in May 2001.
The Republic of Seychelles signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 4 December 1999, ratified it on 2 June 2000, and became a State Party on 1 December 2000. Seychelles has not yet submitted its initial Article 7 transparency report, which was due 30 May 2001.
Domestic implementation legislation for the Mine Ban Treaty is in progress. A draft Anti-Personnel Mines (Prohibition) Bill, 2001 has been circulated to all members of the National Humanitarian Affairs Committee and is presently awaiting approval by the Cabinet of Ministers.[1] The inter-ministerial National Humanitarian Affairs Committee was established in July 2001 with the mandate to ensure the translation of International Humanitarian Law into domestic legislation.
Seychelles did not participate in the Third Meeting of States Parties in Managua, Nicaragua, September 2001, nor did it attend the intersessional Standing Committee meetings in Geneva in January and May 2002. On 29 November 2001 Seychelles voted in favor of UN General Assembly Resolution 56/24M, in support of the Mine Ban Treaty.
Seychelles is a 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.
A Foreign Affairs spokesperson confirmed to Landmine Monitor that Seychelles has not produced, imported, or stockpiled antipersonnel mines.[2] According to the law in Seychelles, it is illegal for anyone other than the military to handle any type of explosives.
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[1] Presentation by a member of the Government of Seychelles to the Southern African Regional Seminar on International Humanitarian Law, Pretoria, South Africa, 21-23 May 2002.
[2] Telephone interview with a representative of the Seychelles Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 26 June 2002. See also Landmine Monitor 2002, p. 144.
