Bhutan has not acceded to the Mine Ban Treaty, but
it voted in favor of the UN General Assembly Resolution 57/74 calling for
universalization of the treaty on 22 November 2002, as it had done in previous
years. Bhutan did not attend any Mine Ban Treaty-related meetings in 2002 or
the first half of 2003. Bhutan is not believed to use, produce, trade, or
stockpile antipersonnel mines. It apparently does not have a landmine problem.
Armed opposition groups from the northeast Indian state of Assam, including the
National Democratic Front of Bodoland and the United Liberation Front of Assam,
maintain bases in southern
Bhutan[1] and possess and use
landmines and/or improvise explosive
devices.[2] No landmine
incidents in Bhutan or involving Bhutanese nationals were reported in 2002.