Previously, this country announced its intention to exit the Ottawa Treaty, citing lessons from the Russia-Ukraine conflict. On Thursday, Finland’s parliament voted 157-18 to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines, citing national security concerns amid regional tensions. RELATED: U.S., French and U.K. Air Forces Launch NATO Drills in Finland Under treaty rules, the […]

It is deeply troubling that the U.S. is deliberately providing a weapon whose use is prohibited under international law. During this week, the signatories of the “Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Antipersonnel Mines and on Their Destruction” (The Ottawa Convention) will hold their Fifth Review Conference (5RC) in […]