Togo
Practice Relating to the Prohibition of Certain Types of Landmines
Togo’s existing legislation on arms ownership and use prohibits individuals from bearing arms without official authorization. Given this law, specific legislation prohibiting the use of anti-personnel mines is thought to be unnecessary.
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=togo&pqs_section=; interview with Georges Anani, Minister Counsellor, Embassy of the Republic of Togo, Brussels, Belgium, 17 February 1999.
Togo voted in favour of the UN General Assembly resolutions in support of a ban on anti-personnel landmines in 1996, 1997 and 1998 and endorsed the Final Declaration of the Brussels Conference on Anti-personnel Landmines in June 1997.
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=togo&pqs_section=; Landmine Monitor Researcher interview with Georges Anani, Minister Counsellor, Embassy of the Republic of Togo, Brussels, Belgium, 17 February 1999.
