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| | MEMORANDUM TO DELEGATES OF THE FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING OF STATES PARTIES (Human Rights Watch Press release, ) |
 | | Only ten of the sixty-eight States Parties to Amended Protocol II are not signatories or party to the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty: China, Estonia, Finland, India, Israel, Latvia, Morocco, Pakistan, South Korea, and the United States of America. |
 | | In addition, four States Parties to the original Protocol II have used antipersonnel mines in the last four years: Georgia, Israel (which is now a State Party to the amended protocol), Russia (in Chechnya and Tajikistan), and Uzbekistan. |
 | | Article 5 of Amended Protocol II is intended to protect civilians from the impact of non-remotely-delivered antipersonnel mines. |
| www.hrw.org /press/2002/12/ccwapii202.htm (2364 words) |
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