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Updated November 24, 2009

Obama Administration Decides Not to Sign Treaty Banning Land Mines

AP

More than 150 countries have agreed to the Mine Ban Treaty's provisions to end the production, use, stockpiling and trade in mines. But the Obama State Department will not change the Bush-era policy and has decided not to sign on. 

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has decided not to sign an international treaty banning land mines. 

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly says the administration recently completed a review and decided not to change the Bush-era policy. 

More than 150 countries have agreed to the Mine Ban Treaty's provisions to end the production, use, stockpiling and trade in mines. Besides the United States, holdouts include: China, India, Pakistan, Myanmar and Russia. 

Kelly says the United States would send an observer group of mine experts to a review conference on the treaty in Colombia next week.

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