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Poland’s Exit from Ottawa Convention
February 26 , 2026
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- Poland withdrew from the Ottawa Convention (Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty).
- Poland has ratified the treaty in 2012 and destroyed its anti-personnel mine stockpiles in 2016.
- The decision is linked to security concerns near its borders with Russia (Kaliningrad) and Belarus after the Ukraine war.
- The Ottawa Convention (1997) bans the use, production, stockpiling, and transfer of anti-personnel mines.
- Anti-tank mines are regulated under the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (1980), Amended Protocol II (1996).
- India, Russia, and the United States have not joined the Ottawa Convention.
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