Zelenskyy suspends Ukraine’s participation in Ottawa Mine Ban Treaty

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a bill suspending Ukraine’s participation in the Ottawa Treaty, or the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, Report informs via TASS.

"Without delay, I have signed a document submitted by the Verkhovna Rada [parliament], which suspends Ukraine’s obligations under the Ottawa Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention," he said on Telegram.

The country’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, approved the measure on July 15. The document was submitted to the parliament on July 11, in accordance with Zelenskyy’s instructions, who tasked the government with "immediately ensuring that measures required to unilaterally withdraw from the Convention are taken by Ukraine without delay."

Ukraine signed the convention in 1999 and ratified it in 2005.

Earlier, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Finland and Estonia announced their withdrawal from the treaty.

The Ottawa Convention entered into force in 1999, when 164 states, including Ukraine, joined it.