The convention, signed in Ottawa in 1997, took effect in 1999, six months after 40 signatories, including Croatia, ratified it.
Croatia is also among the first four countries to have destroyed all land mine supplies kept in arms depots.
VIENNA, Feb 12 (Hina) - Land mines claim the lives of hundreds of victims every week, it was said at an international symposium held in Vienna on Monday on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of signing the Ottawa Convention banning
the use, storage, production and transport of land mines and other booby traps.
VIENNA, Feb 12 (Hina) - Land mines claim the lives of hundreds of
victims every week, it was said at an international symposium held in Vienna on
Monday on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of signing the Ottawa
Convention banning the use, storage, production and transport of land mines and
other booby traps.