Barbados endorsed the Final Declaration of the Brussels Conference on Anti-personnel Landmines in June 1997 and attended as a full participant the Oslo negotiations in September 1997 which led to the adoption of a treaty banning anti-personnel landmines. Barbados voted in favour of the UN General Assembly resolutions in support of a ban on anti-personnel landmines in 1996, 1997 and 1998, as well as relevant resolutions and declarations of the OAS and CARICOM.