Guatemala

The Republic of Guatemala signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997 and ratified it on 26 March 1999, becoming a State Party on 1 September 1999. Guatemala has never used, produced, imported, exported, or stockpiled antipersonnel mines, including for training purposes. Legislation to enforce the antipersonnel mine prohibition domestically was passed in 1997. Guatemala submitted its ninth Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 report in April 2011.

Guatemala attended the Tenth Meeting of States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty in Geneva in November–December 2010, as well as the intersessional Standing Committee meetings in Geneva in June 2011, where it announced that it has helped form a working group along with several other South American states in order to monitor implementation of the Cartagena Action Plan and to encourage cooperation and victim assistance.[1] Previously, Guatemala has served as co-rapporteur and then co-chair of the Standing Committees on Stockpile Destruction (2002–2004) and the General Status and Operation of the Convention (2004–2006).

In April 2011, eight landmines were found in a narcotics raid in Guatemala City. American defense analysts stated “with a high degree of confidence that many of these weapons and munitions came from Guatemalan military stock.”[2]

Guatemala is party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons and its Amended Protocol II on landmines and Protocol V on explosive remnants of war.