MINSK. May 12 (Interfax) - The Lithuanian parliament has withdrawn from the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, also known as the Ottawa Convention, the parliamentary press service said.
"The Seimas [parliament] has decided to denounce the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction adopted on September 18, 1997," the press service said.
The decision passed by 107 votes, with three abstained.
The convention allows for withdrawing from it six months after the withdrawal decision is submitted to the UN Secretary General.
Lithuania has been a member of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention since 2003.
As reported earlier, Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics signed a bill on Latvia's withdrawal from the Ottawa Convention into law. Poland, Estonia and Finland also announced their decision to withdraw from the convention.