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.”
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.