28/06/2022 Stati Uniti
“If you ever come across anything suspicious like this item, please do not pick it up, contact your local law enforcement agency for assistance”
BY JACQUELINE FELDSCHER SENIOR NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT
The United States will make no new anti-personnel land mines and will use existing ones only on the Korean peninsula, reinstating Obama-era limits undone by the Trump administration, White House officials said Tuesday. The new policy follows more than a year of efforts by advocates and like-minded lawmakers to convince President Joe Biden that the Trump rules hurt civilians and reduce America’s credibility with allies. Advocates welcomed the change but urged the White House to end the U.S. use of land mines entirely. “The latest policy shift has moved the U.S. closer to compliance with the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, yet the administration still pauses at the finish line,” said Jeff Meer, the U.S. executive director of Humanity & Inclusion, an non-governmental organization that co-founded the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. “The fact that the U.S. has refrained from using or trading antipersonnel land mines for nearly 30 years, and is counted as the global community’s most generous funder of land mine clearance, but still won’t join the treaty, is an ironic and historical oddity. This great contradiction leaves thousands of lives at risk.” Land mines are buried weapons that are designed to harm troops or military vehicles that pass over them and trigger an explosion. But thousands of civilians are hurt or killed each year by mines emplaced in war zones or left over from past conflicts.. In 2020, more than 2,000 people were killed by land mines and more than 4,500 were injured, according to a report released in November. “The use of these weapons put more civilians at risk of being injured by unexploded mines, including children, long after the fighting has stopped,” John Kirby, the National Security Council’s coordinator for strategic communications, said at the White House.
If you find anything that appears to be an explosive device, do not touch it, leave it where it is and call the police. We will contact the appropriate agencies to properly dispose of the item.
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