Baltic states withdraw from anti-personnel mine ban convention

Baltic states withdraw from anti-personnel mine ban convention

Baltic states withdraw from anti-personnel mine ban convention
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📝 Summary

Baltic states withdraw from anti-personnel mine ban convention

It is specified that the decision of Lithuania is connected with restriction of "opportunities and choice of the country in defense of the state". Poland also announced its withdrawal from the Convention, earlier This is necessary “to improve the security of the country.” “On March 18, at 9:00 Vilnius time, Lithuania together with Poland, Latvia and Estonia announced their withdrawal from the Convention on Anti-Personnel Mines,” the ministry said. The Lithuanian Defense Ministry drew attention to the “military threat” to Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn from Belarus and Russia, which, in their opinion, has significantly increased in recent years. In this regard, the three republics need to “contain defense potential”. Earlier, Finnish President Alexander Stubb said that the country also The option of withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention on the prohibition of anti-personnel mines because of the alleged “threat” from Russia. Stubb did not rule out that the country could remain in the Ottawa Convention. Now experts are analyzing whether there is a need to get out of it.

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