{"id":8394,"date":"2022-07-18T16:31:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T16:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8394"},"modified":"2022-07-18T16:31:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T16:31:19","slug":"biden-administration-commits-to-limiting-use-of-land-mines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8394","title":{"rendered":"Biden administration commits to limiting use of land mines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The White House announced..it will commit to limiting the use of anti-personnel land mines in most places around the world, putting an end to a Trump-era expansion of the policy that President Joe Biden had vowed to reverse.<br>Anti-personnel land mines, designed for use against humans, have a \u201cdisproportionate impact on civilians, including children, long after fighting has stopped,\u201d the White House said in a statement &#8220;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;The Biden administration noted that the use of anti-personnel land mines will continue on the Korean Peninsula because of the \u201cunique circumstances\u201d there and the United States\u2019 commitment to defend South Korea against North Korea.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;The policy is \u201cin sharp contrast\u201d to Russia\u2019s involvement in Ukraine, where there\u2019s evidence that the country has used anti-personnel landmines that have caused \u201cextensive damage\u201d to civilians and infrastructure, Brown said. He declined to say whether the war in Ukraine provided the impetus for the administration\u2019s move, emphasizing that the policy has been under review since January 2021 and was recently concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The policy change aims to \u201cbring U.S. practice in closer alignment with a global humanitarian movement that has had a demonstrated positive impact in reducing civilian casualties\u201d from land mines, the statement said.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/06\/21\/biden-land-mines-trump-policy-00040925\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/06\/21\/biden-land-mines-trump-policy-00040925<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The White House announced..it will commit to limiting the use of anti-personnel land mines in most places around the world, putting an end to a Trump-era expansion of the policy that President Joe Biden had vowed to reverse.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-personnel land mines, designed for use against humans, have a \u201cdisproportionate impact on civilians, including children, long after fighting has stopped,\u201d the White House said in a statement &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Biden administration noted that the use of anti-personnel land mines will continue on the Korean Peninsula because of the \u201cunique circumstances\u201d there and the United States\u2019 commitment to defend South Korea against North Korea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The policy is \u201cin sharp contrast\u201d to Russia\u2019s involvement in Ukraine, where there\u2019s evidence that the country has used anti-personnel landmines that have caused \u201cextensive damage\u201d to civilians and infrastructure, Brown said. He declined to say whether the war in Ukraine provided the impetus for the administration\u2019s move, emphasizing that the policy has been under review since January 2021 and was recently concluded.<br \/>\nThe policy change aims to \u201cbring U.S. practice in closer alignment with a global humanitarian movement that has had a demonstrated positive impact in reducing civilian casualties\u201d from land mines, the statement said.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[272,355,314,780,1690,259,158,1055],"class_list":["post-8394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-joe-biden","tag-land-mines","tag-military","tag-war","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8395,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8394\/revisions\/8395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}