Mexico

The United Mexican States signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997 and ratified it on 9 June 1998, becoming a State Party on 1 March 1999. Mexico has never stockpiled, used, produced, exported, or imported antipersonnel mines, including for training purposes. Mexico believes that existing legislation is sufficient to enforce the antipersonnel mine prohibition domestically. In April 2011, Mexico submitted its 13^th Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 report.

Mexico reported having discovered five unidentified antipersonnel mines in Tijuana, Miguel Alemán, and Ebanos in 2010. Two of these mines were destroyed by the end of that year.[1]

Mexico served as co-chair of the Standing Committee on Victim Assistance and Socio-Economic Reintegration from 1999–2000 and as the co-rapporteur and then co-chair of the Standing Committee on the General Status and Operation of the Convention from 2002–2004.

Mexico attended the Tenth Meeting of States Parties in Geneva in November–December 2010 and the intersessional Standing Committee meetings in June 2011, where it was announced that it joined the informal working group of Latin American countries that will monitor the implementation of the Cartagena Action Plan.

Mexico is party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons but not its Amended Protocol II on landmines or Protocol V on explosive remnants of war.