Poland and the three Baltic nations say they want to withdraw from an international convention that bans antipersonnel land mines due to the growing threat from Russia to front-line NATO states ...

NATO members Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia said Tuesday they are abandoning the 1997 Ottawa convention treaty ...

A team of locals in Athens County is trying to make former mine land economically productive again. Instead of harvesting ...

The defense ministers of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia said in a joint statement that they “unanimously recommend withdrawing from the Ottawa Convention" — the international antipersonnel mine ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Share WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland and the three Baltic nations said Tuesday that they want to withdraw ...

Lithuania earlier this month quit another treaty banning cluster bombs citing security concerns over the threat from Moscow, ...

The slow pace of mine closure is a clear disregard of both environmental protection and the well-being of communities—the ...

The ministers’ recommendation to withdraw from the treaty means Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland are inching closer to incorporating land mines into NATO’s territorial defense plans.

Poland and the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia are contemplating leaving the Ottawa Convention, which bans antipersonnel landmines, due to increased threats from Russia. While ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland and the three Baltic nations said Tuesday that they want to withdraw from an international convention that bans antipersonnel land mines due to the growing threat ...