The move will allow Finland to reintroduce anti-personnel mines into its weaponry stockpile as soon as January.
Finland has formally withdrawn from an international treaty that bans the use of anti-personnel landmines (APLs), the country’s Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday. It said the United Nations has been notified of the decision, which will enable the Nordic country to reintroduce landmines into its military stockpile in six months.
Drafted in 1997, the Ottawa Treaty prohibits the use, stockpiling, production, and transfer of APLs due to their long-term threat to civilians. While 164 nations have ratified the treaty, major military powers such as the US, China, and Russia have not joined.
Finland acceded to the treaty in 2012, but its government began preparing to withdraw earlier this year, citing a growing security threat from Russia. Last month, the Finnish parliament overwhelmingly approved the decision.
“The decision to withdraw from the Convention is based on Finland’s defense needs in the deteriorated security environment,” the Finnish Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Finland’s withdrawal comes shortly after four other NATO members – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland – announced similar decisions earlier this year. In a joint statement issued in late March, the countries cited heightened military threats from Russia as justification for the move.
The Kremlin has consistently denied any aggressive intentions toward NATO, claiming that the Ukraine conflict was provoked by the military bloc’s eastward expansion.
At the same time, Moscow has stated that it shares the goals and principles of the Ottawa Convention, but considers joining it impractical. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, “anti-personnel mines remain an effective and low-cost means of securing Russia’s borders.”
And so they should, as seen in Sisu (Finnish trans- ‘Determination’)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQWL3E9tMTw
Yeah…emm…alright mate, but the position of sides has been changed.
The Winter War..Finland in World War Two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1EfoFiJBX4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgOsMs_qF-E
Yes, and what do they do?
The Global Zionist PTB do very little in the political scenario, and nothing to stop the wars, poverty and hunger-BY DESIGN!
NZ Loyal Party is the best option to action and remove the current Zionist / Globalist PTB which divides us all whilst enriching themselves at our expense.
Well, exactly, these Zionist powers that you YouTube-link and mention were then Allies, now the globalists. Just wanted to make sure we’re on the same track.
Then AND now these powers are the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Bankster-Complex, in short the ‘Bankster Cabal’.
Thejr war is everywhere.
Even in your wallet.
Mass psychosis in Finland now too?
Nope, it’s MIC business as usual.
Ongoing and j ncreasing.
The better option for ALL of the Nordic Nation / States is to form their own combined Defence entity that will give greater protection, and then for all of those Nordic Nations to declared Armed Neutrality.
That would alleviate the tensions along the Russian – Finnish border, but further research indicates that the Zionist warmongering Banksters have created a 1930’s problem afresh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN90aTt3lZU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL7HBIGhKDQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx93OGptnGY
I invite you to think about why Russia would want to invade Europe.
I invite you to then think about differences of the SMO in Eastern Ukraine compared to any other potential war with any other Euro nation.
Hint: Russia has everything she needs. Europe has woke culture, imported scum, impoverished middle class and economies that are failing. Russia ‘s gotta be mad to interfere with Western decline.
Ditch the old dogmas and think critical. Refresh your mental browser. And then have a holiday in Russia.
Depending on where you live, you might not want to come back
Well said !
Russia has since thrown-off J3wi$h Communism that was threatening Finland during World War Two.
There has been Finnish neutrality and peace at the Finnish-Russian border until recently, when it was disrupted by the proto-Khazarian and Greater Israel J3w$ wanting and needing to de-stabilise the area.
This time around, it’s the MIC and Zionist run governments fomenting the idea of border invasion paranoia.
I don’t think that the Nordic Nations have anything to fear from the Russians; they’re of the same bloodline dating back from the Vikings using Russian rivers for trade routes.
The problem is correctly identified as coming from the Baltic- from non-Nordic Europe itself.
Once the Nordic Nations combine their defence spending and form-up a viable Scandinavian Defence Force, this would serve as a deterrent from other European Nations invading the far north and sovereign territory.
Putin has opened-up Russia to white people who share Russia’s conservative Orthodox Christian values. He has even waived the language requirement, but it is expected that those who settle there eventually learn Russian from professional sources.
Russia has been especially welcoming to white South African farmers who are doing very well indeed, but you won’t hear about this in the MSM, especially after the way the recent South African immigrants were treated in the U.S..
Putin has said that Russia is no threat to Scandinavia, AS LONG AS THEY REMAINED NEUTRAL AND NOT JOIN NATO. Sound familiar? This is what he simply asked of the Ukraine until the J3w3$$ Victoria Nuland started the 2014 Maidan War that killed 10,000 ethnic Russian Orthodox Christians in the Donbass Region.
It must be remembered that the Finnish PM at the time was a woman who hosted a disco party with Jabby (remember that???), and that Jabby sold the female Finnish PM on the Zio-Globalist plan of ‘NATO protection’ which has no viability whatsoever.
IF there’s an invasion into Finland, it will come from the Baltic Region other European Nations, probably via NATO Forces, and NOT from Russia.
In the meantime, Putin and the Russians are biding their time watching the West slowly die and collapse under the J3wi$h Mossad’s Talmudic Rule.
Putin, Russia and history knows the past damage that the J3w$ did to Russia from 1917-1991, to the tune of 66 million dead from the Red Terror, the Purges, World War Two, and the GULAG Camps that were run by….J3W$!
The J3wi$h Bolsheviks will not be able to do the same ever again in modern day Russia as they are doing in Gaza while the world looks on with contempt indifference and is dismissive of J3wi$h Zionist criminality!
Whoa, this discourse will go ways.
Kudos, Sir, for your fine response, trusting that this is a real response, not an AI troll or cabal agent.
“The problem is correctly identified as coming from the Baltic- from non-Nordic Europe itself.” I so hope that your comment will somehow find its way into the Nordic.
“…coming from the Baltic…” Innet where the Nord Stream 2 was?
….and Baltic.
I think those Finnish politicians need a reality check. The border between their country and Russia is 1,340 kilometres long meaning there would be a need to plant billions of mines. Come the winter and all those mines would be buried under metres of hard pack frozen snow rendering the mines totally useless.
A quick look at a map shows that any perceived attack on Finland would come from the Baltic Sea. The question though is why Russia would want to invade any country in western Europe. They have no resources other than an unlimited supply of Third World refugees.
The thing is that the MIC, or as has been suggested, the MICBC is using “Russia bad” to make profit.
It does not even make sense to the peoples of Europe and they oppose that war mongering as much as they are able to do (well at least the contingent that is not covid-brain-moshed), but history moves faster than [rigged] elections and the EU fascist parliament is the biggest crime mafia. Van der Lying has really hijacked people’s and peoples’ democracy and deserves to be prosecuted. Watch out…she has a parachute hidden in her pathetic hairdoo.
On a side note: imagine all the ‘Rudolph the Reindeer’ being shredded into blood and bone vapors by billions of land mines. Or all the kids looking for them…………..