Hungary
Practice Relating to the Prohibition of Certain Types of Landmines
Hungary’s Criminal Code (1978), as amended in 1998, provides:
The following shall be construed as weapons prohibited by international treaty:
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b) the following weapons listed in the protocols to the [1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons] …
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2. mines, remotely-delivered mines, anti-personnel mines, booby-traps and other devices specified in Points 1–5 of Article 2 of the Amended Protocol II …
d) anti-personnel mines specified in Point 1 of Article 2 of the convention signed at Oslo on 18 September 1997 on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction.
Hungary, Criminal Code, 1978, as amended in 1998, Section 160/A(3).
Hungary attended all the preparatory meetings for the adoption of a treaty banning anti-personnel landmines. It endorsed the Final Declaration of the Brussels Conference on Anti-personnel Landmines in June 1997 and was a full participant in the Oslo negotiations in September 1997 which led to the adoption of a treaty banning anti-personnel landmines. Hungary also voted in favour of the UN General Assembly resolutions in support of a ban on anti-personnel landmines in 1996, 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=hungary&pqs_section=.
