Obama won't ban land mines
Published: Wednesday | November 25, 2009
Obama
The Obama administration has decided not to sign an interna-tional convention banning land mines.
State Department spokesman, Ian Kelly said the administration recently completed a review and decided not to change the Bush-administration policy.
More than 150 countries have agreed to the Mine Ban Treaty's provisions to end the production, use, stockpiling and trade in mines. Besides the United States, holdouts include China, India, Pakistan, Myanmar and Russia.
Kelly said that the United States would send an observer group of mine experts to a review conference on the treaty in Cartagena, Colombia, next week.
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