14+cuba

country: cuba topic: Landmines committee:14 name: alexis h period 0

landmines were first used in World War II for helping them acheive there plan.the military would place the mines in the ground then draw a map of were they put them. then people started to find ways to place mines places without physically placing them. they used aircrafts and other flying objects.After that people started useing them for personal attacks. Now people use landmines to hurt civilians and to terrorise communities. fourteen UN programs, Funds,ect. are involed in the mine action. In 1997 they formed a service called United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) this service is supposed to rid the world of landmines so people can feel safe and sleep without the threat of a landmine. Cuba and the U.S. are the only countries in the americas that have not signed the treaty to ban landmines. Cuba is aware of landmines and has banned them from there country but they have not signed the treaty"continue to share the humanitarian concerns associated with...the indiscriminate and irresponsible use of antipersonnel mines.” (http://www.icbl.org/lm/country/cuba/#fn2). Cuba attend mine ban meeting in November of 2004. In the past few years Cubas policy has not changed, Cuba believes that they can not sign the treaty because of the treat they got from U.S.. in the October 2005 words to the **__UN General Assembly__** First Committee, Cuba staes that,"We continue to share our humanitarian concerns associated with...the indiscriminate and irrisponsible use of antipersonal mines." I think that if the us stopped threating cuba then cuba would sign the treaty. if the us dose not want to sign it we should make a treaty saying that the us is on its own and if the us sells, buys or uses landmines on another countrie drastic measures will take place. http://www.icbl.org/lm/2002/appendices/unmas.html Copyright © August 2002 by [|Human Rights Watch] http://www.icbl.org/lm/country/cuba/ Copyright © October 2006 by [|Human Rights Watch]
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