Key developments since 1999: Barbados became a State Party on 1 July
1999.
Barbados signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997, ratified on 26
January 1999, and the treaty entered into force for the country on 1 July 1999.
Barbados did not detail national implementation measures in its initial Article
7 transparency report submitted 12 May 2003, in which it stated that it has not
“used, stockpiled, produced or transferred” antipersonnel
mines.[1] Barbados participated
in the Ottawa Process and subsequently attended one annual meeting of States
Parties in September 2002. The country voted in favor of United Nations General
Assembly Resolution 58/53 on 8 December 2003, as it had done on similar pro-ban
resolutions since 1996. Barbados has never produced, transferred, or used
antipersonnel mines, and is not
mine-affected.[2]
[1] Article 7 Report, 12 May
2003. [2] Government of Barbados
response to Landmine Monitor Questionnaire, 29 January 1999.