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Peninsula to engage in activity prohibited by the Ottawa Convention; (3) to undertake to destroyantipersonnel landmine stockpiles not required for the defense of the Republic of Korea; and (4)not to produce or otherwise acquire any antipersonnel munitions that are not compliant with theOttawa Convention. 334 The United States has also previously committed not to emplace newpersistent anti-personnel or anti-vehicle landmines (i.e., landmines without self-destructionmechanisms and self-deactivation features). 335 U.S. landmines will continue to meet or exceedinternational standards for self-destruction and self-deactivation. 336 In addition, the UnitedStates no longer has any non-detectable mine of any type in its arsenal. 337The United States has a long practice of contributing significantly to humanitariandemining efforts and other conventional weapons destruction programs. 3386.12.14 Ottawa Convention on Anti-Personnel Landmines. The United States is not aParty to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer ofAnti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction. 339 This Convention is commonly called theOttawa Convention.334 Department of State, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Fact Sheet: Changes to U.S. Anti-Personnel LandminePolicy (Sept. 23, 2014) (“This means that [the] United States will: not use APL outside the Korean Peninsula; notassist, encourage, or induce anyone outside the Korean Peninsula to engage in activity prohibited by the OttawaConvention; and undertake to destroy APL stockpiles not required for the defense of the Republic of Korea. Thischange to U.S. APL policy builds on the announcement that the U.S. delegation made in June at the Third ReviewConference of the Ottawa Convention in Maputo, Mozambique, that the United States will not produce or otherwiseacquire any anti-personnel munitions that are not compliant with the Ottawa Convention, including to replace suchmunitions as they expire in the coming years.”).335 Department of State, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Fact Sheet: New United States Policy on Landmines:Reducing Humanitarian Risk and Saving Lives of United States Soldiers (Feb. 27, 2004) (“The United States hascommitted to eliminate persistent landmines of all types from its arsenal.”).336 Department of State, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Fact Sheet: New United States Policy on Landmines:Reducing Humanitarian Risk and Saving Lives of United States Soldiers (Feb. 27, 2004) (“The United States willcontinue to develop non-persistent anti-personnel and anti-tank landmines. As with the current United Statesinventory of non-persistent landmines, these mines will continue to meet or exceed international standards for selfdestructionand self-deactivation. This ensures that, after they are no longer needed for the battlefield, theselandmines will detonate or turn themselves off, eliminating the threat to civilians.”).337 Department of State, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Fact Sheet: New United States Policy on Landmines:Reducing Humanitarian Risk and Saving Lives of United States Soldiers (Feb. 27, 2004) (“Within one year, theUnited States will no longer have any non-detectable mine of any type in its arsenal.”).338 Department of State, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, To Walk the Earth in Safety: Documenting the UnitedStates’ 20 Year Commitment to Conventional Weapons Destruction, 6 (August 2013) (“In 1993, the United Statesestablished the Demining Assistance Program and the Interagency Working Group (IWG) on Demining andLandmine Control, initiating a coordinated interagency aid effort to support international humanitarian mine action(HMA). Though the United States first provided HMA assistance in 1988, a coordinated and sustained U.S.Government effort began with this IWG. Over the past two decades, the U.S. approach to mine action has expandedto meet related needs in post-conflict environments, such as threats from ERW and at-risk SA/LW [small arms andlight weapons], including manportable air-defense systems (MANPADS). … Since 1993, the United States hasinvested more than $2 billion in CWD programs in over 90 countries.”).339 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and ontheir Destruction, Sept. 18, 1997, 2056 UNTS 211.378