Phoney minefield means an area free of mines that simulates a minefield.

Navigating Lebanon s Political Minefield

A Path through Europe s Minefield

Technical Annex B Minefield Marking

Clear hidden mines from a minefield

The term minefield includes phoney minefields.

Minefield Marking predominantly differences in opinion over the extent or otherwise to which an emplaced minefield is marked and or monitored.

Don't move, sir, we're all in a minefield.

How is a consumer going to walk through this minefield?

The UU UNO, as a member of the United Nations Association USA Council of Organizations, raised 30,000 to clear a minefield in Kabul, Afghanistan through Adopt A Minefield (November).

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

My assignment was to get a copy of the yugoslav minefield chart.

87. A major restriction is that the Government of Iraq has not released copies of minefield records held in military archives and it has not provided maps indicating minefield locations in the region.

Collective security can never be built on a global minefield of poverty and injustice.

Survey and minefield marking sections have been trained and deployed with each clearance team.

From now on, until we clear this minefield your men will go ahead of my tanks.

But somehow or another, in the last couple of decades, the land of the free has become a legal minefield.

The Working Group on Mines Other Than Anti Personnel Mines heard presentations by Australia on Minefield Marking and Recording A Proposed Technical Annex and Minefield Marking and Recording Technical Annex Update , China on Detectability of AVM and Marking the AVL Field , and Pakistan entitled Pakistan's Experience in Demining Operations .

Three dog teams have been brought into the region to assist the clearance teams and the survey sections with minefield reduction.

Minefield Marking. During the Ninth Meeting of the GGE CCW the Coordinator's Paper utilised a slightly modified version of the Irish proposal.

24. Mine action is a process with four field components mine awareness, minefield survey and marking, mine clearance training and mine clearance.

Whenever feasible the minefield record shall show the exact location of every MOTAPM, except in row minefields where the row location is sufficient.

In cooperation with the World Bank, the programme is currently in the process of analysing the social and economic benefits of minefield clearance.

A geographical information system was purchased in 1998, which allows data relating to settlements, municipalities and counties to be plotted over the minefield data.

A collaborative effort by WFP, the Cambodian Mine Action Centre and UNICEF is intended to maintain minefield markings through the work of identified vulnerable families.

Despite its frequent economic booms, Asia is also a strategic and security minefield. A sclerotic, atavistic, nationalist, and inward looking Japan can only aggravate the situation.

Minefield is a defined area in which mines have been emplaced and mined area is an area which is dangerous due to the presence of mines.

Clearances have not been provided for vital equipment for the global positioning system to be brought into the region to assist with accurately recording minefield locations.

Contextualising the combined effects of detectability, fusing and minefield marking is an important step in generating a clear understanding of the potential impacts of any future instrument.

Arguably this discussion gains real perspective from a humanitarian sense when mines with less than this level of detectability are laid outside an appropriately marked or monitored minefield.

The main functions of CROMAC are to conduct minefield surveys and marking, manage mine clearance and mine awareness activities, and conduct quality assurance of the mine clearance work.

This issue has been addressed by UNOPS and hardware and software have been procured to establish a database that will eventually produce detailed maps complete with minefield overlays.

Since the integration of the United Nations and Croatian centres, more minefield records, mine clearance records and mine incident records have been received from the Ministry of Interior and the Croatian Army.

75. In the area of management information, all previous minefield records in the management information system were those handed to the United Nations by the Croatian Army and the former Krajina Serb Army.

Minefield maps and data on victims will be produced to assist with mine action operations and planning, and these will be made available to all United Nations agencies, non governmental organizations and local authorities.

Mine awareness and risk reduction education, minefield mapping, marking and clearance, victim assistance and rehabilitation, advocacy to stigmatize the use of landmines and support for a comprehensive ban are all integral parts of mine action.

The extension of this approach to cover the issues of detectability, fuse design and minefield marking provides an opportunity to portray, in one matrix, how implementation of a new instrument might be effected in practical terms.

On this topic it is also clear that all mines removed from minefields or mined areas will have to be destroyed as quickly as possible if that destruction has not been realized in the minefield itself.

To ensure timely and successful progress in mine action, I call on both parties to provide all necessary minefield information to the United Nations and to facilitate cross line demining, in accordance with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

Once those personnel leave, or, as is often the case in an armed conflict, they are forced to abandon their positions by the flow of battle, an unmarked minefield of non detectable MOTAPM will be left behind.

So far, the G 20 s call to think globally has turned into act locally. We hope that the G 20 leaders will think systemically at Cannes, and act nationally and cooperatively to defuse the global credit glut minefield.

So far, the G 20 s call to think globally has turned into act locally. nbsp We hope that the G 20 leaders will think systemically at Cannes, and act nationally and cooperatively to defuse the global credit glut minefield.

During this period, some 9 kilometres of minefield frontage along the Blue Line posing a direct threat to the civilian community was marked and fenced by a Lebanese Army team working in coordination with the United Nations Mine Action Coordination Centre.

Given the convergence or lack thereof detailed in Paragraphs six and seven above it would seem appropriate that the CCW GGE Meeting of Military Experts should best expend continuing effort on the areas of detectability, fuse design and minefield marking etc.

During the 9th Meeting of the CCW GGE the Australian delegation proposed a paper on Minefield Marking that notwithstanding doctrinal and equipment limitations, allowed for a lesser standard to be achieved initially while moving to a higher standard in the future.