Petition Text: 22890-CS-NonDis-O

According to the State Department, in 1993 there were an estimated 110 million unexploded land mines in 62 countries. Millions of new mines were laid in 1994. They kill and maim approximately 26,000 people each year.

Senate Bill 940, announced last year by the United Nations General Assembly, expresses support for a goal of eliminating all anti-personnel land mines world-wide and prohibits the export of any military equipment to countries that sell, export, or transfer anti-personnel land mines to any other nation. Provisions of the bill were offered in August, 1995, as an amendment to the Department of Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 1996 and were adopted by an overwhelming vote.

Therefore, be it resolved, that the General Conference join the more than 350 NGO's (non-governmental organizations) calling for an international ban on the use, production, stockpiling, sale, transport, or export of anti-personnel land mines.

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Petition Text: 22890-CS-NonDis-O
1996 United Methodist General Conference