Early in 1801 the British war against France under Napoleon as First Consul was not going well and the country was sick of it. When the Younger Pitt’s government fell in February, the new premier was ...

Why was Belgian neutrality deemed so important in 1839, when the Treaty of London was signed?? What do people think the Monroe Doctrine is about? Have they not noticed the fate of Latin American ...

Marcel Ciolacu, the election favourite and Social Democrat party candidate who was the architect of Sir Keir Starmer’s Anglo-Romanian defence treaty, resigned after the two mainstream Romanian ...

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland agreed to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention, an international treaty banning anti-personnel mines, in response to growing concerns over Russia's growing ...

Russia, which is not a signatory, has used landmines extensively in Ukraine. The Mine Ban Treaty was signed in 1997 by 122 states that gathered in Ottawa at the initiative of then-foreign affairs ...

Four front-line NATO allies are pulling out of a treaty banning landmines, citing Russian aggression. The Ottawa Convention was a post-Cold War effort to prohibit the production and use of anti ...

The defence ministers of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland have recommended leaving the 1997 Ottawa Treaty due to Russia's aggression. Poland and the Baltic states said on Tuesday that they ...

Despite the intention to leave the treaty, they said they would remain committed to humanitarian law, including the protection of civilians during armed conflict. The Ottawa Convention was signed in ...

Defense ministers from Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania recommend that their countries withdraw from the international agreement banning antipersonnel mines, also known as the Ottawa Treaty.

also known as the Mine Ban Treaty, came into force in 1997. It aims to ban anti-personnel mines - those aimed at humans - worldwide, and has been signed by more than 160 countries. But some major ...

The statement argued that the security situation in the region has “fundamentally deteriorated” since the treaty was ratified ... Russia nor the United States signed up.

Lloyd Axworthy, the former Canadian minister who was the driving force behind the treaty, says abandoning ... deteriorated” since they signed on to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention ...