Trinidad
and Tobago signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 4 December 1997, ratified on 27 April
1998, and the treaty entered into force on 1 March 1999. On 28 September 2000,
it became the first Caribbean state to adopt domestic implementing legislation,
the “Anti-Personnel Mines Act,
2000.”[1] Trinidad and
Tobago cosponsored and voted in support of pro-ban UN General Assembly
Resolution 56/24M in November 2001. It has not yet submitted its initial
Article 7 transparency report, due by 28 August 1999. Trinidad and Tobago has
never produced, transferred, stockpiled, or used antipersonnel mines, and is not
mine-affected.[2]
