Obuchi urged to promote banning of land mines

Obuchi urged to promote banning of land mines

Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (L) is urged in Tokyo on March 1 by Chisa Shibata (R), a 5th-year primary school pupil in Aichi Prefecture, to promote the banning of land mines. Shibata, who won the top prize in a poster contest in Japan to ban land mines, delivered her work to the prime minister. An international treaty banning the use, production and storage of antipersonnel land mines went into effect the same day.

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