Finland will leave the 1997 Ottawa Convention on the ban on anti -winging mines. Thus, in the future defense of Finland, anti -winging mines will be allowed.
The country’s parliament voted for the corresponding decision today, June 19, Ile Finnish television channel reports.
The Foreign Affairs Committee in his report supported the government’s proposal to leave Ottawa. The Committee believes that the mines are defense weapons for Finland, which is required in the face of a deterioration in security situation, the report said.
At the same time, the country’s parliament voted for a statement that, having terminated the Ottav Convention, Finland will continue to decisively maintain humanitarian activities in mines, such as mitigation in crisis zones.
In 2012, Finland became the last EU country, which signed the Convention of Ottawa. At the beginning of the spring of 2025, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland were announced from this agreement.
Last week, the Finnish Parliament Committee, which, among other things, is dealing with basic contracts and other issues of foreign policy and security policy, said that he supports the cancellation from the Otvav Convention.
The Committee then said that Finland should overestimate the contractual restrictions that can weaken its ability to equip against the background of a weakened security situation.
Source: Yle
Source: Racurs
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