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Responding to a challenge issued
by Canada, on December 3rd 1997 122 countries stated their intention
to implement the Treaty. The Ottawa Treaty required forty ratifications
to come into effect and become international law. The treaty entered
into force and became binding among the forty ratifying states on
1 March 1999. After that date, each additional country becomes bound
six months after its instrument is deposited. At that point the
country is considered to be a party to the treaty.
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