MediaFaro News Digest<p>Poland and Baltic nations to pull out of landmines accord.</p><p>Poland and the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are withdrawing from the Ottawa convention banning anti-personnel mines, the four countries, which all share a border with Russia, said in a joint statement.</p><p>Quitting the 1997 treaty will allow the countries to start stockpiling landmines again.</p><p><a href="https://mediafaro.org/article/20250318-poland-and-baltic-nations-to-pull-out-of-landmines-accord?mf_channel=mastodon&amp;action=forward" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mediafaro.org/article/20250318</span><span class="invisible">-poland-and-baltic-nations-to-pull-out-of-landmines-accord?mf_channel=mastodon&amp;action=forward</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Landmines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Landmines</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/OttawaConvention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OttawaConvention</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Defence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Defence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Poland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Lithuania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lithuania</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Latvia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Latvia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Estonia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Estonia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a></p>