In 1995, during a debate in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, Benin declared that there was an “imperative need for a ban on the manufacture and use of anti-personnel land-mines”.
Benin voted in favour of the UN General Assembly resolutions in support of a ban on anti-personnel landmines in 1996, 1997 and 1998. In 1999, according to Ogoudjobi Sikirou, minister counsellor at the Benin Embassy in Brussels, Belgium, Benin was working for a total ban on landmines.