{"id":400,"date":"2004-12-03T23:11:04","date_gmt":"2004-12-04T05:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=400"},"modified":"2004-12-03T23:11:47","modified_gmt":"2004-12-04T05:11:47","slug":"us-tells-summit-landmine-cut-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Tells Summit Landmine Cut Planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastandard.net\/hm_news\/news.php?articleid=7480\">surprise statement to the international landmine summit<\/a> in Nairobi, promising to ban its usage of anti-personnel mines by 2010 &#8230; almost.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The world will have to wait until 2010 before the United States of America bans the use of anti-personnel landmines.<\/p>\n<p>This is the message the military superpower sent to the delegates attending the first review conference of the anti-personnel Mine Ban Treaty held in Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>In an unsigned press release distributed to the delegates, the US statement said between now and 2010, the possible use of persistent anti-personnel landmines will be restricted only to &#8220;our security treaty obligations in South Korea and any possible use outside that country will require presidential authorisation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The US announced it had increased its mine action budget by 50 percent over the 2003 levels for a new total of $70 million per year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a wise maneuver, showing a willingness to cooperate against an international menace, yet still both retaining an out in case of need and maintaining a realistic view of the weapon&#8217;s current role as a deterrence on the Korean peninsula. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. released a surprise statement to the international landmine summit in Nairobi, promising to ban its usage of anti-personnel mines by 2010 &#8230; almost. The world will have to wait until 2010 before the United States of America bans the use of anti-personnel landmines. This is the message the military superpower sent to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia-pacific","category-general","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}