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WASHINGTON (Reuters) The United States said on Friday it would no longer make or buy canada goose clearance sale anti personnel landmines and that it would strive to eventually join the global treaty banning the weapons, but it stopped short of agreeing to destroy buy canada goose jacket cheap its stockpile of Canada Goose Coats On Sale 3 million mines.
A deminer working for the Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD) cheap canada goose uk shows an anti personnel landmine in Mannar district, Sri Lanka September 8, 2011. REUTERS/ALERTNET/Nita Canada Goose Outlet Bhalla
The decision was hailed by arms control groups as a canada goose coats on sale small uk canada goose outlet yet significant step forward. But Representative Randy Forbes warned Canada Goose Online that it would threaten security on the canada goose uk black friday Korean peninsula, and Representative Buck McKeon, chairman of the House Canada Goose online Armed Services Committee, said canada goose coats it was for the security of our men and women in uniform. delegation made the announcement at a review conference of the Mine Ban Treaty in Mozambique, and the White House later confirmed the Canada Goose Jackets decision.
United States took the step of declaring it canada goose will not produce or otherwise acquire any anti personnel landmines in Canada Goose Parka the future, including to replace existing stockpiles as they expire, the White House said in a statement.
are diligently pursuing solutions that would be compliant with and ultimately allow the United States to accede to the Ottawa Convention, the treaty banning the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of APL (anti personnel landmines), it said.
Vermont uk canada goose Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, who has pushed for a ban, called the White House action but significant.
obvious next step is for the Pentagon to destroy its remaining stockpile of mines, which do not belong in the arsenal of civilized nations, he said in Canada Goose sale a statement.
Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, said the United States had just over 3 million anti personnel landmines stockpiled but all were in inventory canada goose black friday sale and none were deployed.
The United States has not produced landmines since the late 1990s, but it had reserved the right to canada goose clearance resume production. forces are known to have used anti personnel mines only cheap Canada Goose once, a single mine in Afghanistan in 2002, canada goose factory sale a Pentagon spokeswoman said.
Landmines kill canada goose uk outlet 15,000 to 20,000 people every year, according to a 2008 United Nations report. The Mine Ban Treaty became international law in 1999.
Steve Goose of Human Rights Watch said the decision was a move in the right direction but that it did not go far enough.
makes little sense to acknowledge that the weapons must be banned due to the humanitarian harm they cause, and yet to insist on being able to use them, he said in an email. He urged Washington to set a target date for joining the canadian goose jacket treaty.
Washington abides by many provisions of the treaty, which had been endorsed by 161 countries but has not been joined by Russia, China, India or the United States.
The United https://www.canadagoose-coats.ca States stopped using long life anti personnel mines in 2011 and agreed to destroy its buy canada goose jacket stockpile canada goose canada goose store store of 1.3 million of them. It maintains a supply of so called smart landmines that can deactivate or self destruct.
Kirby said the Pentagon expected that about 10 years from now mines in the current stockpile would start losing their effectiveness 10 years after that they be completely unusable.
Reporting by Steve Holland, David Alexander and Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Sofina Mirza Reid, Toni canada goose uk shop Reinhold.