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What the Convention saysEach State Party must “as soon as possible” ensure that these mined areas “are perimeter marked, monitored and protected by fencing or other means, to ensure the effective exclusion of civilians, until all anti-personnel mines contained therein have been destroyed.”
Each State Party must render these mined areas no longer dangerous “as soon as possible but not later than 10 years after the entry into force of this Convention for that State Party.” If a State Party believes that it will be unable to destroy or ensure the destruction of all anti-personnel mines in mined areas within 10 years, "it may submit a request ... for an extension of the deadline for completing the destruction of such anti-personnel mines, for a period of up to ten years".
Progress made10 of these 52 States Parties - Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Djibouti, France, Guatemala, Honduras, the FYR of Macedonia, Malawi, Suriname and Swaziland - have indicated that they have fulfilled their clearance obligations.
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Timelines for clearing mined areas in accordance with Article 5 of the Convention PDF 31KB
Timelines for Article 5 extension process PDF 33KB

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