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Example sentences for: anti-personnel
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The treaty arrived at without U.S. participation prohibits all anti-personnel land mines.
The Jordan Times Monday praised the American-born Queen Noor for Jordan's progress in getting rid of anti-personnel land mines in the country.
Considering that an estimated 100 million anti-personnel land mines are deposited around the world and people are being "killed or injured at a rate of one person every 20 minutes," it said, "the world cannot wait until 2006."
Some hurdles remain however, says the Times : the U.S. would like at least a limited exemption for anti-personnel mines used in conjunction with anti-tank mines, and also wants an escape clause allowing exemptions for countries who are the victims of aggression.
In other mine news, the British army has destroyed its entire stock of anti-personnel mines four years before the deadline set by the Ottawa Convention.
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