Sommaire: July 7, 2005: European Parliament resolution on a world without land-mines (Strasbourg)
The European Parliament adopted a joint resolution on landmines which seeks, ultimately, to achieve a universal ban by endorsing measures to halt the use, production and proliferation of mines.
MEPs call on all States to sign and ratify the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, and call on states not party to it to take steps to clear mine-affected areas and provide support for survivors.
MEPs want the USA to reconsider joining the Convention and further call on the USA not to take measures that would violate the Convention, including the production, trade in or use of any munitions that would meet the definition of anti-personnel mines and the delivery of anti-personnel mines to EU Member States and other friendly countries. They call on China to stop its production, as well as Russia who should also stop using landmines in Chechnya.
The House calls on the three remaining members of the enlarged EU to accede to and ratify the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty without delay. The Nairobi Action Plan should be fully implemented by all parties if the Convention's humanitarian and disarmament aims in the period 2005-2009 are to be achieved.
Further measures recommended by MEPs include: the mainstreaming of Ottawa Convention requirements into development programmes with third countries where landmines are an obstacle to development, a broader interpretation of the concept of 'anti-personnel landmine' to include accidental detonation, a strengthened approach by all parties and Member States to mines and assistance for victims, increased resources for mine action, EU action against companies involved in landmines and those investing
in them, and strengthened European leadership in global disarmament.
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