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FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA FOURTH REGULAR SESSION, 2008 C.R.

NO.

15-141 A RESOLUTION Ratifying the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and their Destruction.
1 WHEREAS, anti-personnel mines kill or maim hundreds people 2 around the world every week; and WHEREAS, the victims of anti-personnel mines are mostly innocent and defenseless civilians, including children; and WHEREAS, the presence of large numbers of anti-personnel mines in post-conflict countries inhibits development, reconstruction and repatriation efforts; and WHEREAS, anti-personnel land mines are frequently used in armed conflicts in a manner that violates international 10 humanitarian law; and 11 WHEREAS, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, 12 Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and 13 their Destruction (the “Anti-Personnel Mines Ban Convention”) was 14 adopted by the Oslo Diplomatic Conference on September 18, 1997 15 and opened for signature at Ottawa, Canada on December 3, 1997; 16 and 17 WHEREAS, the Anti-Personnel Mines Ban Convention, having been 18 ratified by the requisite 40 countries, entered into force on 19 March 1, 1999; and 20 WHEREAS, nearly 75 percent of the world’s States have joined 21 the Anti-Personnel Mines Ban Convention; and CRL 15-144 C.R.
NO.
15-141 WHEREAS, the President of the Federated States of Micronesia has transmitted this Resolution to the Fourteenth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia; and WHEREAS, the Government of the Federated States of Micronesia has not yet acceded to the Anti-Personnel Mines Ban Convention and now desires to do so in order to show its commitment to this important international humanitarian issue; and WHEREAS, by the Fourteenth Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia, First Regular Session, 2005, that the Congress 10 hereby ratifying the Anti-Personnel Mines Ban Convention behalf 11 of the Federated States of Micronesia; now, therefore, 12 BE IT RESOLVED that pursuant to Article 18 of the Anti- 13 Personnel Mines Ban Convention, the Congress hereby resolves that 14 paragraph 1 of Article 1 of this Convention shall apply 15 provisionally to the Federated States of Micronesia pending its 16 entry into force; and 17 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this 18 resolution be transmitted to the President of the Federated 19 States of Micronesia, the Secretary of the Department of Foreign 20 Affairs and the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
21 22 Date: Introduced by: 23 Joe N. Suka (by request) 2 of 2