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Title: Obama Administration Will Not Sign Land Mine Ban
Post by: 240 is Back on November 27, 2009, 08:56:52 AM

 Source: Associated Press

The Obama administration has decided not to sign an international treaty banning land mines.

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly says the administration recently completed a review and decided not to change the Bush-era policy.

More than 150 countries have agreed to the Mine Ban Treaty's provisions to end the production, use, stockpiling and trade in mines. Besides the United States, holdouts include: China, India, Pakistan, Myanmar and Russia.