Joint Standing Committee on Treaties 
      
      APPENDIX 3
      EXHIBITS 
      1.       'Blinding Laser Weapons and International 
        Humanitarian Law', by Bengt Anderberg, Ove E Bring and Myron L Wolbarsht 
        in Journal of Peace Research, Vol 29 (3), August 1992, pp 287-297 
      
      2.       Hidden Killers: The Global Problem 
        with Uncleared Landmines - A Report on International Demining, prepared 
        by the United States Department of State Political- Military Affairs Bureau, 
        Office of International Security Operations (1993) 
      3.       Blinding laser weapons: questions 
        and answers, International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, 16 
        November 1994 
      4.       Blinding weapons: alarming report 
        on laser weapons, International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, 
        1 February 1995 
      5.       Blinding Weapons Campaign Brochure, 
        International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, 1 May 1995 
      6.       Newsbreaks, June 1995, Laser Focus 
        World, p 2 
      7.       Blinding Laser Weapons Reported 
        - June 12, 1995, Laser Focus World 
      8.       Briefing Papers: Anti-Personnel 
        Landmines and the Inhumane Weapons Convention - The Australian Government's 
        Approach, Departments of Defence and of Foreign Affairs and Trade 
        (August 1995) 
      9.       Landmines must be stopped, International 
        Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, 1 September 1995 
      10.       DoD Defines Blinding-Laser Policy 
        - September 15, 1995, Laser Focus World 
      11.       DoD: Lasers are critical to defense, 
        Promt, Navy News & Undersea Technology, 18 September 1995 
      12.       US Army Cancels Blinding Laser 
        Weapon, Reuter News Service, 12 October 1995 
      13.       Vienna Diplomatic Conference Achieves 
        New Prohibition on Blinding Laser Weapons and Deadlock on Landmines, 
        International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, 13 October 1995 
      14.       Blinding Laser Weapons are banned 
        by the UN, Daily Telegraph, 14 October 1995 
      15.       Land Mines and the Inhumane Weapons 
        Review Conference 1995, Research Note No 27, 25 October 1995, Parliamentary 
        Research Service, Parliamentary Library 
      16.       The Vienna Review Conference: success 
        on blinding laser weapons but deadlock on landmines, International 
        Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, 1 November 1995 
      17.       'The Review Conference of the Inhumane 
        Weapons Convention', by Jozef Goldblat, Chapter Summary from the SIPRI 
        Yearbook 1996: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security 
        (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996) 
      18.       Review Conference of the States Parties 
        to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the use of Certain 
        Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or 
        to have Indiscriminate Effects, Geneva, 15-19 January 1996, and President's 
        Text. 
      19.       Anti-Personnel Landmines - Friend 
        or Foe? A study of the military use and effectiveness of anti-personnel 
        mines, International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, 28 March 
        1996 
      20.       Study Find Landmines "of little 
        military use", Reuter, 29 March 1996, 0248 
      21.       Joint Statement by the Minister for 
        Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Defence, Australia Pledges Support 
        for a Global Ban on Anti-Personnel Landmines: Unilaterally Suspends Use, 
        FA 22, 15 April 1996 
      22.       Media Release: Government's Backing 
        of Landmines Ban Courageous and Realistic, Community Aid Abroad, 15 
        April 1996 
      23.       Media Release: Non-Government Organisations 
        Applaud the Australian Government's Suspension on the Use of Landmines 
        and its Call for a Global Ban, AUSTCARE, 15 April 1996 
      24.       Press Release.Newsflash: Aid Council 
        Welcomes Government's Ban on Landmines, Australian Council for Overseas 
        Aid, 13/96, 15 April 1996 
      25.       'USA takes first step in banning anti-personnel 
        mines', Jane's Defence Weekly, 22 May 1996, p 3 
      26.       'The Horror of Land Mines', by Gino 
        Strada in Scientific American, May 1996, pp 26- 31 
      27.       'One false step ... and you're dead', 
        by Justin Mullins in New Scientist, 4 May 1996, pp 32-37 
      28.       Material supplied by AUSTCARE, dated 
        17 September 1996 
      29.       Blinding Laser Weapons Ban in Question?, 
        Laser Focus World, 10 May 1996 
      30.       Cambodia, Handicap International 
      
      31.       DoD Budget Support Laser Weapons, 
        Laser Focus World, 28 June 1996 
      32.       Press Release: United Nations High 
        Commissioner for Refugees: Handicap International Awarded Nansen Medal, 
        1 October 1996 
      33.       International Strategy Conference, 
        Ottawa, 3-5 October 1996, Declaration of the Ottawa Conference: Towards 
        a Global Ban on Anti-Personnel (AP) Mines 
      34.       Anti-personnel mines: An overview 
        1996, International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, 26 September 
        1996 
      35.       'Landmines in PNG raise doubts over 
        aid', The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 October 1996, p 7 
      36.       Australia in the Second Rank of 
        Nations on Landmine Ban, AAP, 22 October 1996, 1436 
      37.       Transcript: Landmines, 7.30 
        Report, ABC, 23 October 1996 
      38.       Letter: Secretary-General of the United 
        Nations to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, dated 23 October 1996 
      39.       'Landmines: The Real Weapons of Mass 
        Destruction' in The Defense Monitor, Vol XXV, No 5, July 1996, 
        pp 1-8 
      40.       Anti-Personnel Mines: Controlling 
        the Plague of 'Butterflies', by Paul Cornish, The Royal Institute 
        of International Affairs, London, 1994 
      41.       'Anti-personnel Landmines: An Ethical 
        Reflection', by Jef Van Gerwen, SJ, PhD, Jesuit Refugee Service, Europe 
      
      42.       'Landmines', The Reality of Aid 
        1996: An Independent Review of International Aid, Earth Scan, pp 32-35 
      
      43.       Extract from CCW News, Tuesday 30 
        April, 1996 
      44.       Afghanistan: Mine Clearance Programme 
        Annual Report 1995, United Nations Office for the Coordination of 
        Humanitarian Assistance to Afghanistan (UNOCHA) 
      45.       Dealing with Mines: Strategies 
        for Peacekeepers, Aid Agencies and the International Community, edited 
        by William Maley, Australian Defence Studies Centre, Australian Defence 
        Force Academy, 1994 
      46.       'A High Priority Problem', by David 
        Davis in The House Magazine, July 8,1996, p 16 
      47.       'Taming the land mine', by Peter La 
        Franchi in Australian Defence Magazine, Vol 4, No 2, February 1996, 
        pp 36-39 
      48.       Summary of Amended Protocol II to 
        the IWC, prepared by the ADF 
      49.       'Land Mines', by Wolfgang Koerner, 
        Research Branch, Library of Parliament, Canada 
      50.       'After the Guns Fall Silent: The Enduring 
        Legacy of Landmines' by the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, 1995 
      
      51.       'U.S. Holds Key to Ban of Land Mines', 
        by Dana Priest in The Guardian Weekly, week ending January 12, 
        1997, p 15 
      52.       Material re the UN General Assembly 
        supplied by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 
      53.       'Landmines: the gap between law and 
        humanity', by Gideon Boas in Law Society Journal, Vol 34, No 9, 
        October 1996, pp 60-63 
      54.       'Political will and cash "needed 
        to speed up removal of landmines" ', by Steve Nadls in Nature, 
        Vol 385, Issue No 6612, 9 January 1997, p 101 
      55.       The Age, 20 January 1997, p 
        A8 
      56.       'U.S. Snubs Canada On Land Mine Ban', 
        by Dana Priest in The Guardian Weekly, week ending January 1997, 
        p 18 
      57.       Address by the Hon Alexander Downer, 
        MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs, to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, 
        30 January 1997 
      
      
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