Malawi
Practice Relating to the Prohibition of Certain Types of Landmines
In February 1997, at the Fourth International NGO Conference on Landmines in Maputo, Mozambique, General O.B. Binauli, High Commissioner of Malawi to Mozambique, stated that Malawi “condemn[s] the manufacture, export, import, use and stockpiling of any type of mines.”
Landmine Monitor Report 1999: Toward a Mine-Free World, available at http://www.the-monitor.org/index.php/publications/display?act=submit&pqs_year=1999&pqs_type=lm&pqs_report=malawi&pqs_section=; “Malawi Government Position on Landmines”, presented by H.E. General O.B. Binauli, High Commissioner of Malawi to Mozambique, to the Fourth International NGO Conference on Landmines, Maputo, Mozambique, 27 February 1997.
Malawi attended the preparatory meeting for the adoption of a treaty banning anti-personnel landmines in Bonn, Germany, in 1997 and endorsed the Final Declaration of the Brussels Conference on Anti-personnel Landmines in June 1997 but did not participate in the Oslo negotiations in September 1997. It voted in favour of the UN General Assembly resolutions in support of a ban on anti-personnel landmines in 1997 and 1998.
Landmine Monitor Report 1999: Toward a Mine-Free World, available at http://www.the-monitor.org/index.php/publications/display?act=submit&pqs_year=1999&pqs_type=lm&pqs_report=malawi&pqs_section=.
