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Mine Ban Policy
The Republic of Hungary signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997 and ratified it on 6 April 1998, becoming a State Party on 1 March 1999. Hungary is a former antipersonnel mine producer and exporter. Hungary destroyed 375,339 stockpiled antipersonnel mines from 1998–1999. Legislation to enforce the antipersonnel mine prohibition domestically entered into force on 7 March 1998. In 2011, Hungary submitted its 13th Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 report.
Hungary attended the Tenth Meeting of States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty in Geneva in November–December 2010 and the intersessional Standing Committee Meetings in Geneva in June 2011.
Hungary served as co-chair of the Standing Committee on Stockpile Destruction from 1999–2000.
Hungary is party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons and its Amended Protocol II on landmines and Protocol V on explosive remnants of war.
Hungary has no known mined areas but is contaminated by unexploded ordnance from World War II. It is currently working on a joint mine clearance project with Croatia to demine a contaminated area along their shared borders. Hungary reported a contaminated area of roughly 1.6km2.[1]
[1] Interview with Milijenko Vahtaric, Assistant Director, Croatian Mine Action Centre, Ed Batlak, Ministry of Defence, and Hrvoje Debac, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, Geneva, 20 June 2011.
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