The Latvian parliament on Wednesday voted in favour of withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention international treaty that bans ...

A three-decade global effort to end the use of land mines appears to be over. Finland and other European countries are ...

The government, along with two other Baltic nations and Poland, agreed last month to quit the 1997 accord that prohibits from ...

GENEVA, April 4 (Reuters) - NATO members Poland, Finland and all three Baltic states have queued up over the past few weeks to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention banning ... Countries that quit the ...

Finland began considering withdrawal from the Ottawa treaty last November when its military commander said the matter should be discussed due to Russia’s use of such weapons in Ukraine.

Finland has announced plans to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty as countries in Europe shore up against potential threats from Russia. The Ottawa Treaty is the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, which ...

The Latvian parliament voted to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention, a treaty banning anti-personnel landmines, citing ...

The decision by four states last month and another one this week to withdraw from the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty, widely known as the Ottawa Treaty, is one of the most significant challenges to ...

Finnish tech giant Insta plans to produce land mines as Finland exits an international ban. Citing Russian threats, Finland joins Poland and the Baltics in leaving the Ottawa Treaty. Insta, exploring ...

After a number of countries in eastern Europe announced they were withdrawing from the Ottawa Treaty, the House of Lords ...

The Latvian parliament approved a bill to withdraw the country from the Ottawa Treaty on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines, Estonian broadcaster ...

Against the backdrop of Russia's three-year war in Ukraine, Poland and the Baltics are preparing to exit the Ottawa Treaty, the landmark agreement that saw 164 countries destroy their arsenals of ...