Finland notifies UN of withdrawal from landmine ban treaty
Finland notifies UN of withdrawal from landmine ban treaty
Canada is gonna need to do this next :(
We're going to need a silly amount of mines...
so is Mexico if Canada do unless they do it before Canada, they also signed it
Less notifying, more eastern border landmine covering!
Oh, it wasn't the UN that was the intended recipient of that particular message. That's why it was sent publicly...
You typically need to notify other members of a treaty of your withdrawal, and then there's some time delay until you're no longer bound by the terms. You can't just secretly withdraw, or treaties wouldn't be very meaningful.
EDIT: Yeah. The submitted article says that it happens in six months from today, and here's the treaty text on withdrawal:
Article 20
Duration and withdrawal
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This Convention shall be of unlimited duration.
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Each State Party shall, in exercising its national sovereignty, have the right to withdraw from this Convention. It shall give notice of such withdrawal to all other States Parties, to the Depositary and to the United Nations Security Council. Such instrument of withdrawal shall include a full explanation of the reasons motivating this withdrawal.
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Such withdrawal shall only take effect six months after the receipt of the instrument of withdrawal by the Depositary. If, however, on the expiry of that six- month period, the withdrawing State Party is engaged in an armed conflict, the withdrawal shall not take effect before the end of the armed conflict.
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The withdrawal of a State Party from this Convention shall not in any way affect the duty of States to continue fulfilling the obligations assumed under any relevant rules of international law.
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I'm from Ukraine, so I'm armed with common sense and a quite realistic point of view on the situation.
So ironic, or perhaps more disingenous, to say that as people try to defend themselves from the Russians.
1 month troll account? I doubt anyone could be this unhinged from reality
We don't wish anyone to forcibly cross that border. Being a defensive and preventative measure is the whole point...
Are we the baddies?
No, the neighbour-invading neighbour which makes landmines necessary in the first place is the baddy in this scenario.