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To: FaultLine who started this subject	2/27/2004 1:49:01 PM
From: boris_a	Read Replies (2) of 281500

"US sidesteps full landmines ban" guardian.co.uk "The Bush administration is today expected to announce a change to its landmine policy but not join the 150 nations who have sworn off using them forever. ..... Stephen Goose, executive director of the arms control division of Human Rights Watch, praised the plan to increase spending for mine clearance projects but said the US was isolated by its insistence on using landmines. "We have a great deal of momentum everywhere else around the world. The US is the only country in Nato that hasn't banned this weapon. We have a situation where the US is undermining the international norm against this weapon," he said. ..... Senator Patrick Leahy, a leading opponent of landmines, said there were some positive aspects to the polic but "on the whole [was] a deeply disappointing step backward" .... A total of 11,700 people, including 2,649 children, were reported killed by land mines in 2002, according to a report in September by the campaign." Bravo!

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