Statement on Compliance at the Intersessional Meetings of the Mine Ban Treaty

ICBL Statement on Compliance Delivered by Steve Goose, Human Rights Watch Mine Ban Treaty Intersessionals Geneva, 7 June 2018 Thank you for the floor. We thank the Committee on Cooperative Compliance for its important work, and also thank it for the opportunity for the ICBL and its members to contribute to the process. This is a good time to remind ourselves how special this Convention is, and how special the cooperative compliance approach is. There are lessons to be learned for the many nations that are struggling to deal with Syria’s willful violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention, and…

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