Haiti signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December
1997, but has not yet ratified. In June 2002, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs
official said the ratification procedure was on a “fast track” and
ratification documents had been sent to the office of President Jean Bertrand
Aristide.[1] Haiti did not
attend any Mine Ban Treaty-related meetings in the reporting period, but on 22
November 2002 it voted in support of UN General Assembly Resolution 57/74,
calling for universalization of the Mine Ban Treaty. Haiti has never produced,
imported, stockpiled or used antipersonnel mines and is not
mine-affected.[2]
[1] Email to ICBL from Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, June 2002. [2] Letter to ICBL
Coordinator from Minister Fritz Longchamp, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 31
January 2000.