More than 180 nations at UN talks in Geneva from Aug 4 to 15 failed to agree on a globally binding treaty to curb growing amounts of plastic waste and impose bans or phase-outs for the most toxic ...

Canadian officials negotiating a global treaty on plastic pollution at the United Nations say they didn't push other ...

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 ...

The final round of negotiations for the Global Plastics Treaty (INC-5.2) will take place next week in Switzerland.

BANGKOK: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reaffirmed Thailand's commitment to the Ottawa Convention and called on Cambodia ...

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 ...

Finland has notified the United Nations it is leaving the Ottawa Convention that bans the use of anti-personnel landmines, its foreign ministry said late on Thursday.