UN chief and Pope ask nations to end use of antipersonnel land mines

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: World leaders, including U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Pope Francis, renewed their calls for nations to end the production and use of land mines, emphasizing the humanitarian toll these weapons continue to exact.

Their appeals came during the opening of the fifth review of the International Mine Ban Treaty, also known as the Ottawa Convention, in Cambodia.

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