Key developments since 1999: The Bahamas became a State Party on 1
March 1999.
The Bahamas signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997, ratified on 31
July 1998, and the treaty entered into force on 1 March 1999. The Bahamas has
not yet enacted domestic implementation measures. It submitted an initial
Article 7 transparency report on 12 March 2002, but no subsequent annual
reports.[1] The country voted in
favor of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 58/53, as it had done on
similar pro-ban resolutions since 1996. The Bahamas has never produced,
transferred, or used antipersonnel
mines.[2] It has no stockpile and
the country is not
mine-affected.[3]
[1] It did not complete Form A (National
implementation measures) of its Article 7 Report, 12 March
2002. [2] Landmine Monitor questionnaire
completed by the High Commission for the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Ottawa, 2
February 1999. [3] Article 7 Report, 12
March 2002.