Clear hidden mines from a minefield

Assisting the victims

The focus of integrated demining operations is on minefields in the Shilalo region of Eritrea, in Sector West.

In the next step, animals learn to find real mines in real minefields.

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Transfers of mines have virtually halted, large tracts of previously mined lands have been cleared and more than 31 million stockpiled mines have been destroyed.

In accordance with the current Strategic Plan for Mine Action in Afghanistan, the areas with a high impact on the communities would be given first priority in clearance of mines and unexploded ordnance subsequently, demining of other areas would begin.

In April, the HALO Trust completed mine clearance operations along the Inguri river in the Gali district, declaring the area mine impact free .

Welcoming all demining activity in the buffer zone, including the agreement to begin the clearing of Turkish Forces minefields in Nicosia and surrounding areas within the buffer zone,

The Bangladeshi demining contingent rotated during the reporting period and the newly inducted team commenced operations in the Shilalo region of Sector West.

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Two large scale demining actions had been conducted in the border regions, and landmines within Chinese territory had been removed.

The chief objective of the programme is to come up with practical and innovative solutions for detecting anti personnel mines in rural areas, cleaning up mountainous or heavily vegetated areas and mechanically neutralizing military artifacts, thus protecting the lives of the sappers who are responsible for the demining process.

This characteristic makes radar imagery especially useful in differentiating areas of dry from moist soil and in the identification of vegetated zones often characterized by high humidity that would give rise to a strong radar response.

(b) Destroying stockpiled anti personnel mines

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The estimates, however, are that this is only 60 per cent of the real number of minefields.

Till January 2002, the Programme was applied to Police Stations in the capital city (districts of Omonoia, Acharnon, Kolonos, Exarheia), and in other districts (Democracy Sq., Dendropotamou, Stavroupolis Thessaloniki, Larissa, Β Patra, Veroia, Α Heracleion) as well as to Police Stations of the Sub Constabulary for Juvenile Delinquency of Attica and of the Security Department of Herakleion and Patra.

When our national demining programme began its work in the mid 1990s, it registered 145,902 mines in former war zones.

Moreover, we have embarked on a demining project that allows the freeing of mined territories for agricultural use.

Mr. Hassan (Jordan) said that a national mine action strategy had been implemented in his country in 1993. Its goals were to decrease the risk of death or injury from landmine accidents and to rehabilitate the demined areas in order to alleviate poverty and promote development for local communities.

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Since May, on the whole, 78,132 square metres over nine minefields were cleared, and more than 470 anti personnel and 430 anti tank mines were removed and destroyed.

Prior to the beginning of the peace negotiations, it was virtually impossible to engage in mine surveys, clearing, capacity development or even mine risk education activities.

Mine education and clearance in the Nuba region facilitated the resettlement of returnees there.

It is connected by road to the Fizuli District in the east and the Kubatly District in the north.

The UNMEE Mine Action Coordination Centre continues to monitor closely the threat of landmines and unexploded ordnance in all sectors.

In addition to addressing the immediate needs of the Mission to deploy through route and area clearance, the mine action component requires improved data collection in order to prioritize high and medium impact areas for clearance.

Indohaadde also owns drug farms in the area under his control, including at Janaale, Shalambood, Qoryooley, Buulamarer and Kurtun Waarey the exact number of farms is unknown, but Monitoring Group sources estimated that as many as 10 may be spread throughout his area.

The use of anti personnel mines was restricted by the norms of international humanitarian law, and more specifically, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (Ottawa Convention), but mines continued to be a serious danger for many communities throughout the world.

Welcoming the efforts of the Community to make southern Africa a landmine free zone,

Global security cannot be built on a minefield of poverty and disease.

There are also uncharted landmines and widespread unexploded ordnance throughout the area of responsibility.

In the run up to the Srebrenica anniversary, and with the airing by the Tribunal of a video showing a Scorpion detachment executing Bosniaks in the Srebrenica area in 1995, their continuing freedom is glaring.

In the area of clearance of landmines and explosive remnants of war, the United Nations had bolstered its support to Member States for technical surveying, mapping, marking, clearance, post clearance documentation, community liaison and the handover of cleared land.

Considering the necessity of ensuring the elimination of anti personnel mines from Central American territory as well as the rehabilitation and reintegration of mine victims in their communities in order to restore normal conditions for the integral development of that region,

Although demining activities were severely hampered by the rainy season, humanitarian mine action was carried out in the Nuba Mountains, Rumbek, Yei, Kapoeta and El Fasher.

UNICEF had mine action activities in 34 countries and regions.

Former battlefields will have to be demined so that there are no no go areas in a time of peace.

Demining has taken place on 373 kilometres of road, and 1.7 million square metres of suspected dangerous areas have been cleared.