LM Report 1999

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MALDIVES

Maldives signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 1 October 1998, the 133rd country to do so. It has not yet ratified. Maldives did not participate in any of the Ottawa Process meetings, or the negotiations in Oslo in September. However, it did vote in favor of the pro-ban UN General Assembly resolutions in 1996, 1997, and 1998. Maldives is not mine-affected. It does not have a regular army, but rather a paramilitary police force, the National Security Service.^[1] It is not known to have ever produced, exported, stockpiled, or used antipersonnel mines.

^[1] U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, World Factbook, 1992, p. 214.

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