WARSAW, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Poland's withdrawal from the Ottawa Convention means it will be able to lay anti-personnel mines along its eastern border in the space of 48 hours if a threat emerges, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday, shortly before the withdrawal becomes effective.
As most of Russia's European neighbours except Norway move to leave the treaty that bans the production and use of anti-personnel mines, Poland plans to deploy them as part of its "East Shield" project to secure its borders with Belarus and the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.
