Guinea participated in African efforts to support the “Ottawa Process” which led to the adoption of a treaty banning anti-personnel landmines, including the OAU meeting in Kempton Park, South Africa in May 1997. It attended preparatory meetings for the adoption of a treaty banning anti-personnel landmines, including the International Strategy Conference in Ottawa, Canada, in October 1996, and endorsed the Final Declaration of the Brussels Conference on Anti-personnel Landmines in June 1997. Guinea was a full participant in the Oslo negotiations in September 1997 which led to the adoption of a treaty banning anti-personnel landmines. It also voted in favour of the UN General Assembly resolutions in support of a ban on anti-personnel landmines in 1996, 1997 and 1998.