Saint
Vincent and the Grenadines signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997,
ratified on 1 August 2001, and the treaty entered into force on 1 February 2002.
It has not yet enacted domestic implementing
legislation.[1] Saint Vincent
and the Grenadines was absent from the vote on pro-ban UN General Assembly
Resolution 56/24M in November 2001, but it has supported similar pro-ban
resolutions in the past. Its initial Article 7 transparency report is due 31
July 2002. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has never produced, transferred,
stockpiled, or used antipersonnel mines, and is not
mine-affected.[2]
[1] In August 2002, it requested from ICBL
a copy of the ICRC handbook to help draft implementing legislation, as well as
the VERTIC Guide on Article 7 reporting. Fax to Elizabeth Bernstein, ICBL
Coordinator, from Judith Jones-Morgan, Attorney General of Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines, 31 August 2001. [2] Response
to Landmine Monitor Report 1999 questionnaire, 22 April 1999.
