HUGO BANZER SUAREZ PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC

For the Honorable National Congress, it has sanctioned the following Law:

THE HONORABLE NATIONAL CONGRESS, D E C R E T A: ONLY ARTICLE- Pursuant to Article 59, Attribution 12a. of the Political Constitution of the. The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Storage, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on its Destruction, signed in Ottawa, Canada, on December 3, 1997, is approved and ratified. I went to the Executive Branch, for constitutional purposes. It is given in the Session Room of the Honorable National Congress, at the eighteen days of the month of February of a thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight years. Fdo. Walter Guiberas Denis, Hormando Vaca Diez V.D., Ruben E. Poma Rojas, Gonzalo Molina Ossio, Guido Roca Villavicencio, Gonzalo Aguirre Villafan. Therefore, it was enacted so that it has and will comply with the law of the Republic. Palace of Government of the city of La Paz, on the twentieth day of the month of March of a thousand nine hundred and ninety years. FDO. HUGO BANZER SUAREZ, Javier Murillo de la Rocha, Carlos Iturralde Ballivián, Fernando Kieffer Guzman.