Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention to hold its Twenty-Second Meeting of States Parties from 1 to 5 December 2025

The Twenty-Second Meeting of States Parties to the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention is being held from 1 to 5 December 2025 at the Palais des Nations, Geneva.

The Meeting opened at 10 a.m. on Monday, 1 December, under the Presidency of Ambassador Tomiko Ichikawa of Japan. The opening session featured a video-message from the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and remarks by Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu. The Meeting is taking place in the Assembly Hall. Information on a series of thematic side events can be found on the Convention’s website. The provisional agenda and programme of work of the Meeting can be accessed via UNODA Meetings Place.

States Parties will review progress during the first year of implementation of the Siem-Reap Angkor Action Plan, adopted at the Fifth Review Conference in Siem-Reap, Cambodia, in November 2024. They will also consider several extension requests under Article 5 of the Convention on Destruction of anti-personnel mines in mined areas.

States Parties will also discuss challenges to effective implementation of the Convention, including victim assistance, national capacity-building and sustainable funding for humanitarian demining. The Meeting will further examine recent unprecedented withdrawals from the Convention, along with the unilateral decision by one Party to suspend its operation.

In parallel, the United Nations and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), with contributions from ICBL members Humanity and Inclusion (HI) and Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA), will co-host the exhibit “Upholding the Mine Ban Convention: a shared responsibility to eradicate mines and empower lives” in Pas Perdus. The exhibit features photographs from Syria, Ukraine, and the ICBL archive, survivor testimonies on rehabilitation, and a mine-clearance demonstration, underscoring the collective responsibility to eliminate anti-personnel mines and mitigate their devastating impact.

For more detailed information or additional elements on this meeting, please contact Ms. Nora Allgaier - nora.allgaier@un.org

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