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.