GENEVA, November 27. /TASS/. Ukraine failed to inform other signatories of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (Ottawa Convention) about plans to violate its commitments, the convention’s Secretariat said.
"The Ukrainian delegation attending the Summit has not yet informed on this development," the organization said in a statement. "Ukraine has consistently expressed its commitment to the Convention’s norms."
The secretariat warned that the use of antipersonnel landmines "will perpetuate suffering for generations and decades to come," even "in times of peace."
On November 20, the Pentagon confirmed to TASS that the US administration had authorized the transfer of anti-personnel landmines to Ukraine. The Department of Defense clarified that these were non-persistent mines, which become inert after a preset period of time, thus mitigating risks to civilians. On November 21, the Department suggested the possibility of new deliveries of anti-personnel landmines to the Kiev regime.
Earlier, The Washington Post reported that Biden authorized the delivery of antipersonnel landmines to Ukraine, reversing his administration’s earlier policy that banned the transfer and use of US antipersonnel landmines outside the Korean Peninsula. Commenting on this information, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Kiev is a signatory to the UN convention banning anti-personnel landmines.
The Ottawa Convention, which bans anti-personnel landmines, has been signed by 164 nations including Ukraine since it came into force in 1999.