Mali signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997,
ratified on 2 June 1998, and became a State Party on 1 March 1999. National
implementation legislation, including penal sanctions, was adopted on 27
September 2000.[1] The
interministerial National Commission for a Total Ban on Landmines (CNITMA) was
created in June 2002.[2] Mali
has not submitted an Article 7 update since providing its initial report on 17
May 2001.[3] Mali attended the
Fourth Meeting of States Parties in September 2002 and voted in favor of the UN
General Assembly Resolution 57/74 on 22 November 2002, promoting the
universalization and implementation of the Mine Ban Treaty. Mali does not
produce or export antipersonnel mines and states that it has never used them.
Mali destroyed its stockpiled antipersonnel mines in 1998, except for 2,000
antipersonnel and 1,000 antivehicle mines retained for training
purposes.[4] Mali is not
mine-affected.
[1] Interview with Safita Konaté
Traoré, Deputy Director of Judicial Affairs, Ministry of Foreign
Affaires, Geneva, 19 September 2002. [2]
Landmine Monitor Report 2002, p.
341. [3] Article 7 Report, 17 May 2001
(for period from 25 May 1998). [4]
Article 7 Report, Form D, 17 May 2001. For details on the stockpile and its
destruction, see Landmine Monitor Report 2001, pp. 96-97.