LM Report 2002

HOLY SEE

The Holy See signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 4 December 1997 and ratified it on 17 February 1998, becoming a State Party on 1 March 1999.

The Holy See attended the Third Meeting of States Parties in September 2001 in Managua, Nicaragua, and the intersessional Standing Committee meetings in January and May 2002.

The Holy See submitted an Article 7 transparency report on 5 April 2002, for calendar years 2000 and 2001. This stated that the Holy See believes that implementation legislation “is unnecessary because it has never possessed or used anti-personnel mines.”^[1] The initial Article 7 Report was submitted on 28 August 1999. The Holy See has previously stated that it does not possess, produce, transfer, or use antipersonnel mines and is not mine-affected.^[2]

The Holy See is a party to Amended Protocol II of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW), and attended the Third Annual Conference of States Parties to Amended Protocol II and the Second CCW Review Conference in December 2001.

[1] Article 7 Report, Form A, submitted on 5 April 2002, covering January 2000-December 2001.
[2] See Landmine Monitor Report 2001, p. 712.

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