Nauru has not yet
signed the Mine Ban Treaty but there appears strong intention to do so. In a
letter to Landmine Monitor, the Assistant Director of the Department of Foreign
Affairs wrote that Nauru is currently in the process of acceding to the treaty
with the intention of ratification in the “near
future.”[1]
Nauru is now a member of the United Nations, having been formally accepted on
14 September 1999, but it was absent from the vote on UNGA Resolution 54/54B in
support of the ban treaty in December 1999. Nauru did not attend the First
Meeting of States Parties to the Mine Ban Treaty in Maputo nor did it attend any
intersessional meetings of the treaty.
It is believed that Nauru has never produced, transferred, stockpiled, or
used AP mines and it does not contribute to humanitarian mine action assistance
programs.
[1] Fax from Chitra Jeremiah, Assistant
Director, Department of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Nauru to Neil Mander, New
Zealand Campaign Against Landmines, 11 May 2000.