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 106 STAT. 2562 PUBLIC LAW 102-484—OCT. 23, 1992 commercial export of anti-persomiel landmines valued at $980,000, and during the past five yecurs the Department of Defense nas approved the sale of 13,156 anti-personnel landmines valued at $841,146. (4) The United States signed, but has not ratified, the 1981 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed To Be Excessively Ii\jurious or To Have Indiscriminate Effects. The Convention prohibits the indiscriminate use of landmines. (5) When it signed the Convention, the United States stated: '^e believe that the Convention represents a positive step forward in efforts to minimize ii\)ury or damage to the civilian population in time of armed coiulict. Our signature of the Convention reflects the general willingness of the United States to adopt practical and reasonable provisions concerning the conduct of military operations, for the purpose of protecting noncombatants.". (6) The President should submit the Convention to the Senate for its advice and consent to ratification, and the President should actively negotiate under United Nations auspices or other auspices an international agreement, or a modification of the Convention, to prohibit the sale, transfer or export of anti-personnel landmines. Such an agreement or modification would be an appropriate response to the end of the Cold War and the promotion of arms control a^eements to reduce the indiscriminate killing and maiming of civilians. (7) The United States should set an example for other countries in such negotiations, by implementing a one-year moratorium on the ssde, transfer or export of anti-personnel landmines. (b) STATEMENT OF POLICY. —(1) It shall be the policy of the United States to seek verifiable international agreements prohibiting the sale, transfer, or export, and further limiting the use, pi^uction, possession, and deployment of anti-personnel landmines. (2) It is the sense of the Congress that the President should actively seek to negotiate under United Nations auspices or other auspices an international agreement, or a modification of the Convention, to prohibit the sale, transfer, or export of anti-personnel landmines. (c) MORATORIUM ON TRANSFERS OF ANTI-PERSONNEL LANDMINES ABROAD.— For a period of one year beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act— (1) no sale may be made or financed, no transfer may be made, and no license for export may be issued, under the Arms Export Control Act, with respect to any anti-personnel landmine; and (2) no assistance may be provided under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, with respect to the provision of any antipersonnel landmine. (e) DEFINITION.— For purposes of this section, the term "antipersonnel landmine" means— (1) any munition placed under, on, or near the ground or oUier surface area, or delivered by artillery, rocket, mortar, or similar means or dropped fit)m an aircraft and which is designed to be detonated or exploded by the presence, proximity, or contact of a person;

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