On June 27, 2014, the U.S. ambassador to Mozambique made a statement regarding a shift in U.S. antipersonnel land mine policy and the prospect of U.S. accession to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (Convention). According to a news article, on the last day of the Third Review Conference of the Convention, the ambassador stated that the U.S. was “diligently pursuing solutions that would be compliant with the convention and that would ultimately allow [the U.S.] to accede to the convention.” The ambassador also pledged that the U.S. will “no longer produce or acquire antipersonnel land mines or replace old ones that expire, which will have the practical effect of reducing the estimated 10 million mines in the American stockpile.”