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  • Affairs
  • 21 Oct 2026
  • 7 min

Explainer 540: Why are we blowing up the anti-personnel mines deal?

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  • The Foreign Desk
  • Affairs
  • 7 min

For 27 years, the Ottawa Treaty bound international law, banning 165 countries from using anti-personnel mines. Today Russia’s neighbours are abandoning the deal. If the treaty unravels, what is the future of conflict?

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  • Andrew Mueller

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