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Canadian officials negotiating a global treaty to end plastic pollution at the United Nations say they didn't push other ...
OTTAWA--America's chief envoy in Ottawa said the Canadian government's retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. and decisions to either ban or reconsider the purchase of U.S. goods threaten the future of ...
Since negotiations for a United Nations treaty to address plastic pollution began more than three years ago, protecting human ...
Many Western democracies, including France, the U.K., and Finland, sent cabinet ministers to the treaty negotiations in ...
Finland is leaving the Ottawa Treaty, which bans anti- personnel land mines, becoming the fifth European country to do so. The Finnish Parliament approved this decision on Thursday by a vote of ...
Finland is to follow several of its NATO neighbours and exit the Ottawa Treaty banning the use of anti-personnel landmines, following a vote in the Helsinki parliament on Thursday, state ...
Eastern flank Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovile Sakaliene welcomed Finland's plan to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty, saying in a Facebook post it was "a clear sign that the region is serious about ...
The Ottawa Treaty prohibits the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of anti-personnel landmines. More than 160 countries and territories are party to the treaty, including Ukraine.
For the second-consecutive time, the supposedly 'final' session failed to deliver, as countries could not come to a consensus regarding an agreement on plastic production, consumption and pollution.
The final round of negotiations for the Global Plastics Treaty (INC-5.2) will take place next week in Switzerland.
Ukraine looks to withdraw from a major international treaty on anti-personnel landmines to bolster its defense on the battlefield, where its troops are trying to hold off Russia's intensifying ...
BANGKOK: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reaffirmed Thailand's commitment to the Ottawa Convention and called on Cambodia ...