Gli USA e le mine antiuomo

[Carlo Gubitosa <c.gubitosa@peacelink.it>]

http://www.wand.org/news/landminefeb04.htm


Mine Ban Advocates Denounce White House Decision to Retain Landmines and 
Abandon Mine Ban Treaty

February 27, 2004 - The US Campaign to Ban Landmines (USCBL) denounces most 
of President Bush's new US landmine policy, to be unveiled at a press 
briefing at the State Department today. The long-awaited new policy, 
determined by the Department of Defense, Department of State, the National 
Security Council, and President Bush, abandons altogether plans for US 
accession to the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. President Clinton's policy was for 
the US to join the treaty by 2006. The new policy also confirms the 
possibility that US troops may deploy antipersonnel landmines in Iraq or 
elsewhere.

CONTACT: John Heffernan, Physicians for Human Rights
(617) 413-6407; jheffernan@phrusa.org

For more information about this issue: www.banminesusa.org