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Papua New Guinea
Practice Relating to the Prohibition of Certain Types of Landmines
VI. Other National Practice
Papua New Guinea voted in favour of the UN General Assembly resolutions in support of a ban on anti-personnel landmines in 1996 and 1997, 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. 
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=papua_new_guinea&pqs_section=.