LM Report 2001

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SAMOA

Samoa signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997 and ratified on 23 July 1998. The treaty entered into force for Samoa on 1 March 1999. Samoa's Article 7 transparency measures report was due on 27 August 1999, but has not been submitted. Domestic implementing legislation is currently “in process.”^[1] Samoa voted in support of UN General Assembly Resolution 55/33V in November 2000. Samoa’s delegate to the UN Asia-Pacific Regional Disarmament Conference in Wellington confirmed the country’s mine-free status; it has never produced, transferred stockpiled, or used antipersonnel mines.^[2]

^[1] Statement by Ambassador Tuilona Neroni Slade, Samoan Permanent Representative to UN, Wellington, New Zealand, 30 March 2001.
^[2] Ibid.