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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-10-25"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Anti-personnel mines (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20001025.5.3-087"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-10-25-Speech-3-0882
lpv:speaker	lp:Ilkka Suominen2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2000-02-10--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Kansallinen Kokoomus (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; EPP-ED (1999-09-30--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (1999-10-07--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Estonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-10-07--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the Finnish Government last debated the question of anti-personnel mines on 14 June 1999. At the time it was decided to look into how Finland might be a party to the Ottawa Convention in 2006 and replace anti-personnel mines with other defence methods by the end of 2010. The Finns are involved in international cooperation with regard to mine clearance. Experts from Finland and Finnish clearance vehicles have taken part in clearance programmes in Cambodia for two and a half years, and in Mozambique and Kosovo for one year. As party to the convention, Finland complies with the regulations in the amended Mine Protocol in the Convention on Conventional Weapons 1996, which came into force in December 1998. Finland does not feel it is militarily threatened. However, we are the only EU country to have a land border with an external superpower that is more than a thousand kilometres long. Finland herself is responsible for her credible defence arrangement. Until a replacement military arrangement, which costs approximately half of Finland’s defence budget for one year, is in place, anti-personnel mines will remain a part of the defence arrangement. In Finland, there is not one anti-personnel mine that has been placed in the ground. Finland has never engaged in the export of anti-personnel mines and none have been manufactured in the country since 1981. All the mines are in storage. In Finland, no harm has come to civilians or Finnish soldiers from Finnish anti-personnel mines since the period of clearance that came in the wake of the Second World War that ended in the 1940s. Finland is one of the unfortunately few countries in the world that sign and ratify international agreements only when they can meet the conditions they contain to the last letter. And that is how it will also happen with regard to anti-personnel mines."@en1

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