Burkina Faso
Practice Relating to the Prohibition of Certain Types of Landmines
Burkina Faso’s Anti-Personnel Mines Decree (2001) provides:
The development, manufacture, production, acquisition, stockpiling, possession, offer, cession, import, export, transfer, and use of anti-personnel mines shall be prohibited in the territory of Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso, Anti-Personnel Mines Decree, 2001, § 1.
In 1995, during a debate in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, Burkina Faso stated that it supported an eventual ban on anti-personnel mines.
Burkina Faso, Statement before the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, UN Doc. A/C.1/50/PV.8, 20 October 1995, p. 10.
Burkina Faso attended all the major meetings which led to the adoption of a treaty banning anti-personnel landmines, including the International Strategy Conference “Towards a Global Ban on Anti-personnel Mines” in October 1996, the Fourth International NGO Conference in Maputo, where the government delivered a statement, the Brussels Conference on Anti-personnel Landmines in June 1997, where it endorsed the Final Declaration, and the Oslo negotiations in September 1997 which led to the adoption of a mine ban treaty.
In all regional and international fora (OAU, UN, Franco-African Summit of Heads of State), Burkina Faso has supported resolutions calling for a global ban on anti-personnel mines. Burkina Faso 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=burkina_faso&pqs_section=.
