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    A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana has warned the Senate that the controversy surrounding the budget padding scandal will not end soon. According to Falana, the matter will not be swept under the carpet. The senior lawyer said this during the keynote address he delivered at the interactive session organized by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) in collaboration with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), held in Lagos on Tuesday, March 26, 2024.

News and Press Release in English on World and 1 other country about Mine Action and Protection and Human Rights; published on 28 Mar 2023 by Govt. Germany

On January 31, 2020, the Trump Administration canceled the Obama Administration’s policy that prohibited U.S. military forces from employing anti-personnel landmines (APLs) outside the Korean Peninsula. The Obama Administration adopted this policy against the advice of the U.S. military, and with the avowed desire to bring the U.S. into line with the Ottawa Convention, a treaty that the U.S. has not signed and which the Senate has not ratified.

Statement by UK Ambassador Aidan Liddle to the UN First Committee meeting on Disarmament

On June 21, 2022, the Biden Administration cancelled the Trump Administration’s policy that allowed U.S. military forces to employ anti-personnel landmines (APLs) outside the Korean Peninsula. The Trump Administration’s policy, announced on January 31, 2020, had in turn cancelled the Obama Administration’s policy, which was the same as the Biden policy, and which had altered the policy that the George W. Bush Administration had adopted in 2004. The U.S. has now had four policy changes on APLs in 18 years.