Milestones of the AICMA.

PositionComprehensive Action against Antipersonnel Mines - Chronology - Brief article

* September 1991

Secretary General Joao Clemente Baena Soares requests Inter-American Defense Board (IADB) conduct a study of the mine problem in Central America

* June 1992

General Assembly passes Resolution 1191 "Support for Central American Peace Process and Mine Clearance," creating a special fund for support of detaining operations

* January 1993

IADB forms and trains an international detaining training team

* December 1997

Over 100 countries sign the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production, and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction (Ottawa Convention)

* June...

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