Today, 28 years ago, on September 17, 1997 (Calendar, August 16, 1997), the Convention on the Comprehensive Prohibition of Destroyable Mines was signed, and the United States refused to sign. On September 17, 1997, after tense negotiations with representatives of 89 countries attending the International Conference on the Comprehensive Prohibition of Destroyable Seismic Mines in Oslo, Norway, a draft international agreement on the Comprehensive Prohibition of Destroyable Mines was adopted on September 17, 1997 and a draft agreement on the Comprehensive Prohibition of Destroyable Mines was proposed, prohibiting the production, export and use of Destroyable Mines, allowing for some exceptions in the prohibition of Destroyable Mines, and allowing some vulnerable countries to be destroy