Key developments since 1999: San Marino became a State Party to the
Mine Ban Treaty on 1 March 1999.
Mine Ban Policy
The Republic of San Marino signed the Mine Ban Treaty on 3 December 1997 and
ratified it on 18 March 1998, becoming a State Party on 1 March 1999. San
Marino participated in Ottawa Process and the Oslo negotiating conference in
September 1997. It has voted for every annual pro-ban UN General Assembly
resolution since 1996.
San Marino has not deemed necessary any administrative or legislative
measures to implement the treaty. San Marino’s Article 7 transparency
reports have consisted only of a statement that it “has not taken any
measures to increase transparency of, not to prevent, [sic] the use,
stockpiling, production or presence of landmines on its territory because it
never used, stocked, produced or had landmines on its
territory.”[1] This
statement was first made on 29 October 2001, and repeated on 7 August 2002 and
12 February 2004.
San Marino did not attend the Fifth Meeting of States Parties in September
2003, and has only participated in one annual Meeting – the first in May
1999. San Marino has not attended any of the intersessional Standing Committee
meetings.
San Marino is not a State Party to the Convention on Conventional
Weapons.
[1] Article 7 Report, 29 October 2001. An
initial Article 7 report was due on 28 August 1999.