Condemns Anti-personnel Land Mine Supply To Ukraine, UN Secretary General: Real Danger To Civilians
JAKARTA - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres criticized the supply and use of anti-personnel landmines in the conflict in Ukraine.
"The anti-personnel relay is a real and real danger to civilians. Even after the fighting ended, this terrible and indiscriminate weapon could still exist, trapping many generations of people in fear," he said in a statement, published on the UN website., reported TASS November 25.
The UN Secretary-General added that he urged world leaders to join the Ottawa Convention, which prohibits anti-personnel landmines and has been signed by 164 countries since taking effect in 1999.
On November 20, the Pentagon confirmed to TASS that the US Government had allowed the use of anti-personnel landmines in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, on November 21, the United States Department of Defense suggested the possibility of sending new anti-personnel landmines to the Kyiv regime.
Earlier, The Washington Post reported that President Joe Biden's administration allowed the delivery of anti-personnel landmines to Ukraine, which reversed its previous government policy of banning the delivery and use of US anti-personnel landmines beyond the Korean Peninsula.
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Commenting on this information, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reminded Kyiv is a signator of the UN convention that prohibits anti-personnel landmines.