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Armenia

Many States not party acknowledge and support, to various degrees, the humanitarian goals of the Convention. This page presents the latest information available or expressed by the State not party, vis-à-vis the Convention. The information is largely drawn from the Convention's formal and informal meetings, President's Observations, UN Office for Disarmament records, and/or Landmine Monitor if noted.

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  • The State not party has participated as Observer in the following meetings of the Convention
    • 4MSP, 7MSP, 8MSP, 9MSP, 18MSP, 19MSP, 20MSP
  • In the context of the European Council Decision 2021/257 adopted on 18 February 2021 in support of the OAP for the implementation of the Convention, the following activities took place in 2022 in support of the President’s universalization mandate: the President, together with the Convention’s Special Envoy, His Royal Highness Prince Mired Raad Zeid Al-Hussein of Jordan, travelled to New York to meet a number of delegations of States not party including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Lao PDR, Marshall Islands, and Viet Nam to discuss barriers to accession and to explore the opportunity of visiting the country to engage in discussions on accession. 

Since 1997, the UN General Assembly has adopted a “Resolution on the Implementation of the 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction”.

The State not party most recently has voted as follows,

  • In favour - Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 7 December 2022 Seventy-seventh session
  • In favour - General Assembly Seventy-sixth session, First Committee, 2 November 2021
  • In favour - Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 12 December 2019 Seventy-fourth session 
  • In favour - 2018 UNGA First Committee Convention Resolution

Th State not party has indicated,

  • “Armenia supports the Convention and is ready to take measures consistent with the provisions of the treaty but, to assume legally binding obligations, Armenia expects clearly observed readiness to reciprocate on the part of its regional neighbours. Therefore, Armenia’s full participation in the Convention is contingent upon a similar level of political commitment by other parties in the region to adhere to the treaty and comply with its regime.” (Signing Conference of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, 4 December 1997)

 Snapshots of Armenia during Convention-related activities on Flickr.

In 2022, the then-Convention President H.E. Alicia Arango Olmos of Colombia and the Special Envoy on Universalization HRH Prince Mired Raad Zeid Al-Hussein met with H.E. Mher Margaryan, Permanent Representative of Armenia to the UN in New York to discuss the Convention and its norms.