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Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention Implementation Support Unit (AP Mine Ban Convention)

International Organisations, Programmes, Funds, Institutes and other
Peace, Security and Disarmament
Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2C
1202 Geneva
Switzerland
+41 22 730 93 12

"The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction is the cornerstone of the international effort to end the suffering and casualties caused by anti-personnel (AP) mines. The Convention was adopted on 18 September 1997 and it entered into force on 1 March 1999. As of 1 January 2014, 161 states had joined the Convention."