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Appendix F: Signatories to the Ottawa Convention and Their Alternatives to Landmines
Pages 115-117

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From page 115...
... The Committee on Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines found a few instances of countries other than the United States identifying or working to identify alternatives to APL. AUSTRALIA An Australian company, Metal Storm, has developed an all-electronic firing system that represents a breakthrough in gun technology, which the company believes could lead to "the development of an area denial weapons system to replace antipersonnel landmines" (Metal Storm, 2000a)
From page 116...
... The following 107 countries had ratified or acceded to the Ottawa Convention as of September 2000: Albania Djibouti Luxembourg Rwanda Andorra Dominica Macedonia, FYR Saint Kitts end Nevis Antigua and Barbuda Dominican Republic Madagascar Saint Lucia Argentina Ecuador Maldives Samoa Australia E1 Salvador Malaysia San Marino Austria Equatorial Guinea Malawi Senegal Bahamas Fiji Mali Seychelles Bangladesh France Mauritania Slovakia Barbados Gabon Mauritius Slovenia Belgium Germany Mexico Solomon Islands Belize Ghana Moldova South Africa Benin Grenada Monaco Spain Bolivia Guatemala Mozambique Swaziland Bosnia and Herzegovina Guinea Nauru Sweden Botswana Holy See Namibia Switzerland Brazil Honduras Netherlands Tajikistan Bulgaria Hungary New Zealand Thailand Burkina Faso Iceland Nicaragua Togo Cambodia Ireland Niger Trinidad end Tobago Canada Italy Niue Tunisia Chad Jamaica Norway Turkmenistan Colombia Japan Panama Uganda Costa Rica Jordan Paraguay United Kingdom Cote d'Ivoire Kiribati Peru Venezuela Croatia Lesotho Philippines Yemen Czech Republic Liberia Portugal Zimbabwe Denmark Liechtenstein Qatar Between September 2000 and the publication of this report, two countries ratified the convention: Romania United Republic of Tanzania
From page 117...
... Sri Lanka Armenia Egypt Korea, South Nepal Syria Azerbaijan Eritrea Kuwait Nigeria Tonga Bahrain Estonia Kyrgyzstan Oman Turkey Belarus Finland Laos Pakistan Tuvalu Bhutan Georgia Latvia Palau United Arab Emirates Central African Republic India Lebanon Papua New Guinea United States of America China Iran Libya Russia Uzbekistan Comoros Iraq Micronesia Saudi Arabia Vietnam Congo (Brazzaville) Israel Mongolia Singapore Yugoslavia Cuba Kazakhstan Morocco Somalia REFERENCES CDND (Canadian Department of National Defence)


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