...Ridding the world of those often hidden weapons will help to save the lives of tens of thousands o... then underway in Oslo to ban all antipersonnel mines. Our negotiators worked tirelessly to reach ...
...These additions include Blinding Laser Weapons, Nuclear Fusion Reactors, Anti-personnel Mines, Ot...
In that address he noted the importance of multilateralism and the role of middle powers in addressing such challenges as terrorism, "stopping the spread of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons; bolstering fragile states; helping rebuild societies shattered by chronic conflict; tackling climate change; sustaining and spreading economic growth and prosperity." [...] some senior Colombian officials, frustrated with the Congressional stonewalling on me bilateral trade treaty consciously turned to Canada both as an alternative and as a way to influence opinion in the United States.1 With the high level of current focus on Afghanistan and the major significance of the bilateral relationship with the United States, it is unreasonable to assume that Latin America is at any time in the near...
SITTING on a side cabinet in my university office is a landmine. It has been defused, fortunately, and mounted on a display board. It was a presentation given to me by a group of deminers in Bosnia ten years ago. Visitors observe, with a mixture of curiosity and revulsion, the crude weapon with its pineapple-shaped steel outer shell mounted on a sharp wooden stake. They often wonder out loud what kind of perverse mind could conceive and concoct such an evil device. The treaty ignited a concerted global campaign to eliminate landmine use by the world's militaries, to destroy existing stockpiles, to demine, and to support the rehabilitation of landmine victims. There is much work to do. For many still remain outside the treaty and must be brought under its mandate if we are to succe...
... . Of all the destructive weapons of war devised over the millennia, landmines have ...
... on the justice of developing nuclear weapons, and whether there was a moral distinction between...
... export of military small arms and light weapons. We would like to see a ban on trade in these mili...
Grasping for power in the shadow of Brian Mulroney's highly unpopular support for the foreign policy of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, Jean Chrétien promised in his 1993 "Red Book" to maintain some distance from the White House, and to demonstrate more autonomy in his foreign policy. However, since the Chrétien government had much in common with the worldview of Bill Clinton, Liberal Ottawa generally kept in step with Democratic Washington, even when Lloyd Axworthy orchestrated global agreements establishing an International Criminal Court and banning anti-personnel landmines in the face of official US disapproval. During the first four years of George W. Bush's presidency, Canada's weakened position on the bilateral front paradoxically led it to affirm greater autonomy, particula...
... building components of the Pentagon's weapons systems in the Cold War. Collaboration between the...
... militias, and rebel groups: funding, weapons, use of materials, space, and logistical support. ...
... of the Ottawa Convention banning antipersonnel land mines (also known as the Mine Ban Treaty), th...-lasting humanitarian effects that these weapons can have on civilian populations. To date, 106 cou...
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