(b) Restrictions on the use of MOTAPM,

Requiring all MOTAPM to be detectable is an important measure to help mine clearance organizations locate and clear dangerous areas quickly and safely.

proposal on mines other than anti personnel mines (motapm)

Mines Other Than Anti Personnel Mines (MOTAPM)

Stressing the need to convince mine affected States to halt new deployments of anti personnel mines in order to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of mine clearance operations,

Stressing the need to convince mine affected States to halt new deployments of anti personnel mines in order to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of mine clearance operations,

Mines Other Than Anti Personnel Mines (MOTAPM)

There are a number of regulations applicable to MOTAPM which are common to both instruments.

Section VI Fuze design and sensors of MOTAPM

(d) Landmines other than anti personnel mines

(ii) The active life of MOTAPM, technical requirements of SD SDA and SN SDA systems.

such humanitarian concerns as may exist in the international community, to which we belong, suggests the adoption of a new additional protocol on MOTAPM within the framework of the Convention, to read as follows

To determine basic categories of fuzes and adopt Best Practices on fuze mechanisms so as to increase the discriminatory capacity of MOTAPM to the greatest extent and to prevent them from being actuated by the presence, proximity or contact of a person.

UNDOF continued to carry out operational mine clearance. Upon the request of the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic, UNDOF supervised mine clearance work carried out by a civilian Syrian mine clearance company in two villages in the area of separation.

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

The ICRC proposes that a future instrument incorporate all text contained in Article 3 and Article 10 of the Amended Protocol as they apply to MOTAPM, as well as to anti personnel mines.

Working Group on Mines Other Than Anti Personnel Mines

China believes that in the pre war period, minefields should be monitored and guarded effectively, but need no marking or fencing in the post war period, however, minefields should be marked and fenced immediately.

Taking into account the views of other parties on this issue, China is ready to demonstrate flexibility by making some amendment to the provisions on the first category of sensitive fuzes in the Coordinator's Paper, i.e., tilt rods do not appear to be a recommended method of activation, if it cannot be designed in such a way that an individual cannot, within reason, initiate the mine .

The Ottawa Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction has been ratified.

Should APII be observed universally and strictly, the issue of MOTAPM would be well addressed.

The permitted purpose for which mines were used, the activity or project in which these mines were used, progress made or objectives realized in the use of these mines, the types and quantities of mines used and any other relevant information (e.g., the location of the use of the mines).

The nub of the MOTAPM problem lies in the way in which they are used, and not in their design.

(ii) To prohibit the use of MOTAPM, which are not detectable by commonly available mine detection equipment.

(d) To ratify the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti personnel Mines and on Their Destruction See CD 1478.

As most professional armed forces believe that their MOTAPM are intended to protect national territory and have corps to clear such mines, this could potentially remove large numbers of MOTAPM from the detectability obligation.

China hopes that the Coordinator on the MOTAPM issue will incorporate proposals in this package solution to his Paper, so as to facilitate further discussions on the issue in the GGE.

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Number of mines

(vii) Mines.

Japan ratified the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti personnel Mines and on Their Destruction on 30 September 1998

Cooperation and assistance for the care and rehabilitation and the social and economic reintegration of victims of MOTAPM.

Availability of the alternative methods and equipment for the humanitarian de mining, international acceptance.

With regard to post war humanitarian demining, the quantity of metallic material in MOTAPM has little substantive effect on reducing the difficulty of demining operations.

It is therefore necessary to strictly restrict the use of MOTAPM in the above mentioned aspects for the effective solution to the humanitarian concerns caused by MOTAPM.

Mr. Ahmad (Pakistan) expressed the view that the discussion needed to be focused on humanitarian demining, including assistance in mine clearance and the rehabilitation of mine victims, as well as the raising of awareness and national capacity building in mine affected States with regard to modern demining techniques.

Stressing the need to convince mine affected States to halt new deployments of anti personnel mines in order to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of mine clearance operations,

It had also provided training assistance for humanitarian demining in Sri Lanka, and would be contributing to the mine clearance operations in the Sudan.

(a) Issues related to the irresponsible use of MOTAPM,

Bart Weetjens How I taught rats to sniff out land mines

I quit my job to focus on the real world problem landmines.

The presence of landmines had a crucial impact on development.

For the above mentioned reasons, China is in favor of enhancing the efficiency of humanitarian demining efforts through developing advanced demining equipment and technology, instead of through modification of MOTAPM.

Stressing the need to convince mine affected States to halt new deployments of anti personnel mines in order to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of mine clearance operations,

Colombia has the fourth largest number of mine victims in the world victims of anti personnel mines, booby traps and mines other than anti personnel mines.