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Welcoming the adoption of the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions
on the Use of
Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices, as amended on 3 May 1996, annexed
to
the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain
Conventional
Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have
Indiscriminate Effects, and calling for the early ratification of this
Protocol by all States
which have not yet done so,
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Emphasizing the desirability of attracting the adherence of all States
to this Convention,
and determined to work strenuously towards the promotion of its
universalization
in
all relevant fora including, inter alia, the United Nations, the
Conference
on Disarmament,
regional organizations, and groupings, and review conferences of the
Convention
on
Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons
Which May
Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate
Effects,
Basing themselves on the principle of international humanitarian law
that
the right of the
parties to an armed conflict to choose methods or means of warfare is
not
unlimited,
on the principle that prohibits the employment in armed conflicts of
weapons,
projectiles
and materials and methods of warfare of a nature to cause superfluous
injury
or
unnecessary suffering and on the principle that a distinction must be
made
between
civilians and combatants,
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ARTICLE-5: Destruction of anti-personnel mines in mined areas [go to this ARTICLE]
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2. Each State Party shall make every effort to identify all areas under
its jurisdiction or
control in which anti-personnel mines are known or suspected to be
emplaced
and
shall ensure as soon as possible that all anti-personnel mines in mined
areas under its
jurisdiction or control are perimeter-marked, monitored and protected
by
fencing or
other means, to ensure the effective exclusion of civilians, until all
anti-personnel mines
contained therein have been destroyed. The marking shall at least be to
the standards
set out in the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of
Mines,
Booby-Traps and Other Devices, as amended on 3 May 1996, annexed to the
Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain
Conventional
Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have
Indiscriminate Effects.
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ARTICLE-20: Duration and withdrawal [go to this ARTICLE]
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3. Such withdrawal shall only take effect six months after the receipt
of the instrument of withdrawal by the Depositary. If, however, on the
expiry of that six-month period, the withdrawing State Party is engaged
in an
armed conflict, the withdrawal shal l not take effect before the end of
the
armed conflict.
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3. Such withdrawal shall only take effect six months after the receipt
of the instrument of withdrawal by the Depositary. If, however, on the
expiry of that six-month period, the withdrawing State Party is engaged
in an
armed conflict, the withdrawal shal l not take effect before the end of
the
armed conflict.
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