REPORTING UPDATE #6 16 November 1999
According to Article Seven of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, states parties must report to the UN Secretary General “as soon as practical, and in any event not later than 180 days after the entry into force of this Convention for that State Party” on steps taken to implement aspects of the Convention.
To date twenty-seven reports have been received by the UN SG and posted by the Dept. Disarmament Affairs to the Internet at: http://domino.un.org/Ottawa.nsf
They are Austria, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Holy See, Honduras, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Jordan, Macedonia, Mexico, Niue, Norway, Senegal, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand and U.K.
Dozens more countries are late in submitting their reports (see attached list). If you are in or in contact with one of these countries, please check to see why they are late.
Late reports that were due by 27 August 1999 - Andorra
- Bahamas
- Bolivia
- Bosnia Herzegovina
- Burkina Faso
- Djibouti
- Equatorial Guinea
- Fiji
- Grenada
- Jamaica
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritius
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Peru
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turkmenistan
- Yemen
- Zimbabwe
Late reports that were due by 27 September 1999 - Guinea
- Panama
- Qatar
Late reports that were due by 27 October 1999 - Monaco
- Nicaragua
- Paraguay
Reports that are due by 27 November 1999 - Lesotho
- St. Kitts & Nevis
- Swaziland
Reports that are due by 27 December 1999 - Australia
- Barbados
- El Salvador
- New Zealand
- Solomon Islands
- Spain
These Reporting Updates on submission of Article 7 reports by states parties to the 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction (1997 Mine Ban Treaty or Ottawa Convention) are circulated by Human Rights Watch to the ICBL network by email on a regular basis. To receive these reports, please join the ICBL´s electronic group to receive reporting and other updates on the landmines issue by writing an empty message to icblupdate-subscribe-at-egroups-com.
