Landmines Ban

EDM number 734 in 1995-96, proposed by Ann Clwyd on 16/04/1996.

That this House congratulates Australia on its decision to unilaterally suspend the use of anti-personnel landmines by it own forces and on its support for a global ban on production, stockpiling and use and transfer of anti-personnel landmines; notes that the indiscriminate use of landmines has created a humanitarian and economic crises of massive proportions and should be totally eliminated as a weapon of war; and calls on the British Government to follow the example of Australia and a small but growing number of countries who have suspended the use of landmines by their own forces.

This motion has been signed by a total of 117 MPs.