Ottawa Convention: Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty and India’s Position

Category: International Conventions / Defence

  • The Ottawa Convention is formally the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction.

  • Adopted in 1997.

  • It seeks to eliminate anti-personnel landmines.

  • States Parties undertake to prohibit their use, production, stockpiling and transfer, subject to the convention's provisions.

  • It also establishes obligations concerning destruction of stockpiles and mine clearance.

  • The treaty is also known as the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention.

  • India is not a State Party to the Ottawa Convention.

UPSC Focus: Landmines, international humanitarian law, India’s position.