The Latvian parliament on Wednesday voted in favour of withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention international treaty that bans ...

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The Latvian parliament voted to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention, a treaty banning anti-personnel landmines, citing ...

The decision by four states last month and another one this week to withdraw from the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty, widely known as the Ottawa Treaty, is one of the most significant challenges to ...

GENEVA, April 4 (Reuters) - NATO members Poland, Finland and all three Baltic states have queued up over the past few weeks ...

If the bill is approved by both the government and parliament, all other countries that have joined the convention, the UN secretary-general and the UN Security Council will be informed of Latvia's ...

The Ottawa Convention also provides that each member state has the right to withdraw from the convention. Other member states, the United Nations' secretary-general and the Security Council will be ...

Since their widespread deployment in modern warfare, landmines have claimed close to one million lives globally. And the human cost extends far beyond this eye-popping number when you also consider ...

The conversation on landmines cannot be reduced to a binary. Canada must instead explore whether there’s a different path ...

“Finland is not currently facing an immediate military threat,” he said in a statement. “Withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention will give us the possibility to prepare for the changes in the security ...

Finnish defence firm Insta has expressed interest in producing anti-personnel landmines following Finland’s decision to begin ...