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 PUBLIC LAW 103-160—NOV. 30, 1993 107 STAT. 1831 the conduct of military operations, for the purpose of protecting noncombatants.". (7) The United States also indicated that it had supported procedures to enforce compliance, which were omitted from the Convention's final draft. The United States stated: "The United States strongly supported proposals by other countries during the Conference to include special procedures for dealing with compliance matters, and reserves the right to propose at a later date additional procedures and remedies, should this prove necessary, to deal with such problems.". (8) The lack of compliance procedures and other weaknesses have significantly underminea the effectiveness of the Landmine Protocol. Since it entered into force on December 2, 1983, the number of civilians maimed and killed by anti-personnel landmines has multiplied. (9) Since October 23, 1992, when a one-year moratorium on sales, transfers, and exports by the United States of antipersonnel landmines was enacted into law (in section 1365 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 (Public Law 102-484; 22 U.S.C. 2778 note)), the European Parliament has issued a resolution calling for a five year moratorium on sales, transfers, and exports of anti-personnel landmines and the Government of France has announced that it has ceased all sales, transfers, and exports of anti-personnel landmines. (10) On December 2, 1993, 10 years will have elapsed since the 1980 Convention entered into force, triggering the right of any party to request a United Nations conference to review the Convention. Amendments to the Landmine Proto-. col may be considered at that time. A formal request has been made to the United Nations Secretary General for a review conference. With necessary preparations and consultations among governments, a review conference is not expected to be convened before late 1994 or early 1995. (11) llie United States should continue to set an example for other countries in such negotiations by extending the moratorium on sales, transfers, and exports of anti-personnel landmines for an additional three years. A moratorium of that duration would extend the prohibition on the sale, transfer, and export of anti-personnel landmines a sufficient time to take into account the results of a United Nations review conference. (b) STATEMENT OF POLICY. — (1) It is the policy of the United States to seek verifiable international agreements prohibiting the sale, transfer or export, and further limiting the manufacture, possession and use, of anti-personnel landmines. (2) It is the sense of the Congress that— (A) the President should submit the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons to the Senate for ratification; and (B) the United States should— (i) participate in a United Nations conference to review uie Landmine Protocol; and (ii) actively seek to negotiate under United Nations auspices a modification of the Landmine Protocol, or another international agreement, to prohibit the sale,

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