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Under Pressure, U.S. Agrees to Join Ottawa Talks On Landmine Ban: Administration Continues to Press for Korea Exception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2009

Extract

Later today, I will introduce legislation, with 56 cosponsors—Democrats and Republicans, conservatives and liberals, men and women—to ban new deployments of anti-personnel landmines beginning in the year 2000.

Type
Arms-Control
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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References

1. Text from the Office of Senator Leahy.

2. Text from Department of Defense DefenseLINK [www.dtic.dla.mil/defenselink/].

3. White House Press Release, August 18, 1997.

4. Department of State Press Release, August 18, 1997.