me now though to discuss this as adults hey i equate international advocacy director at amnesty international usa thank you sir thanks for joining us now the united states has stated it will not produce any more land mines they've signaled that the devices are not essential to the u.s. security anymore however the u.s. still has yet to sign the treaty why do you think the u.s. is taking that step to not sign well i think it's important to remember that they said that they would preserve their right to use land mines should they need to and that's one of the things that makes this announcement a little bit disappointing because even though they're not going to produce more and they're not going to extend the life of the existing landmines they've not as you said either decided to ratify and signed the treaty and they have not completely banned their right to use it and i think it's because the department defense has not yet. accepted the fact that there's no place for these kinds of weapons and modern day the modern day world and that it really. he is not essential to u.s. national security so we'