Afghanistan
Practice Relating to the Prohibition of Certain Types of Landmines
By 1999, both the Taliban and the ousted government of Burhanuddin Rabbani had made statements in support of a comprehensive ban on anti-personnel landmines. The Rabbani government declared its support for an immediate and comprehensive ban on anti-personnel landmines in a statement to the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland, in March 1996. Previously, during the 1994–1995 preparatory meetings for the Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, it had called for a ban on production and export, but not use.
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=afghanistan&pqs_section=%23Heading7071#Heading7071; Human Rights Watch Arms Project Fact Sheets, “Nations Calling for a Comprehensive Ban on Antipersonnel Landmines”, April 1996 and January 1996.
The Rabbani government voted in favour of the UN General Assembly resolution in support of a ban on anti-personnel landmines in 1996.
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=afghanistan&pqs_section=%23Heading7071#Heading7071.
