antipersonnel

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antipersonnel

[‚an·tē‚pərs·ən′el]

(ordnance)

Applied to bombs, mines, and missiles designed to kill, wound, or obstruct people. Abbreviated apers.

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In 1998, President Bill Clinton issued a directive whereby the United States would sign the agreement by 2006 if suitable alternatives to antipersonnel landmine (APL) technology could be developed and fielded.

Uncertainty remains about U.S. landmine policy: alternative technologies not yet ready to replace landmines, U.S. claims

As a Human Rights Watch/Arms Project report states, "Non-material solutions to compensate for the removal of antipersonnel landmines from the U.

Problems With Current U.S. Policy

of antipersonnel mines by their forces and urges the clearance and destruction

ICBL condemns Libyan antipersonnel mine use

stockpiles of antipersonnel mines from countries that have signed the Mine Ban Treaty and to commit the U.

Toward a New Foreign Policy

Under the Mine Ban Treaty, states must renounce use of antipersonnel

Israel should clear all minefields, join Mine Ban Treaty

Chile, however, is one of the few places in Latin America where antipersonnel mines were used to ring political prisoner camps.

Chacabuco: dual gateway to history: this ghost town in Chile's Atacama Desert echoes sounds of a once-bustling nitrate business, as well as the cries of political prisoners of this former concentration camp

In this reporting period, at least three governments continued using antipersonnel mines: Myanmar (Burma), Nepal and Russia.

Landmine Monitor Report 2005: Toward a Mine-Free World

military's use of all land mines, both antivehicle and antipersonnel, except those with self-destructive capabilities.

U.S. seeks Japan's support for land mine ban apart from Ottawa pact

During the classroom instruction, there are lectures about current ongoing UN or NATO missions; characteristics of antipersonnel and antitank mines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and booby traps; and other mine-related threats.

Training model of Polish EOD engineers

Japan will send two persons to Afghanistan to help the war-torn country's efforts to remove antipersonnel land mines, the Foreign Ministry announced Thursday.

Japan to send 2 persons to Afghanistan for 'demining' work

As foreign minister, he has pressed for the signing of a global treaty to ban antipersonnel land mines, and worked extensively to improve ties with Russia toward signing a peace treaty by the year 2000, it said.