Navigating Lebanon s Political Minefield

Kashmir is a diplomatic minefield.

Technical Annex B Minefield Marking

The way ahead is 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.

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

But sometimes it is necessary to cross the minefield.

How is a consumer going to walk through this minefield?

How is a consumer going to walk through this minefield?

(iv) the short and long term military requirements for a minefield.

And this meant steering clear of a virtual minefield of agendas.

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).

PRINCETON, NJ The intersection of genetics and intelligence is an intellectual minefield.

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

Despite its frequent economic booms, Asia is also a strategic and security minefield.

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

The Cambodian Mine Action Centre has so far cleared over 3,883,230 square metres of minefield.

(a) The establishment of a minefield survey capability, to assess the mine pollution problems across Somalia

The programme includes components for mine awareness training, mine clearance training, minefield surveys and mine clearance.

(a) The establishment of a minefield survey capability, to assess the mine pollution problem across Somalia

The database will also record all incidents involving violations of cease fire positions and minefield information.

However, military counter mine technology has been almost exclusively focused on minefield breaching to enable forces to pass through.

(i) the short and long term effect of MOTAPMs upon the local civilian population for the duration of the minefield

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

Now one of the most eminent scientists of our time has blundered much more clumsily into the same minefield, with predictable results.

If so, one can only hope that watching how Watson blew himself up will not discourage them from venturing into the minefield.

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

(v) Spacing signs shall be placed around the minefield at a distance to ensure their visibility at any point by a civilian approaching the area.

The attack came to a halt however, due to resistance from an unknown Egyptian formation and an unknown minefield, causing the loss of seven Israeli Centurions.

Generally, the first evidence the local population has of the existence of a minefield is the death or injury of one of their family or friends.

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.

In cases of use of remotely delivered mines, it is possible to indicate the area of the minefield, but not always its exact boundaries or the location of the mines involved.

While countermine techniques are effective for the military requirement of breaching the minefield, they are of little or no use to civilians faced with the problem of mine clearance after the end of hostilities.

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.

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.

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.

As for the Australian Minefield Marking Methodologies Paper the proposed approach sets minimum best efforts' guidelines to be adhered to that are both commonsensical and flexible in application and it also enunciates a higher and more desirable long term standard.

With respect to the latter, it is important to assist national Governments to create civilian bodies with the capacities to conduct mine awareness programmes, do minefield surveys, conduct clearance operations, carry out training and manage and finance de mining programmes.

The land of the free has become a legal minefield, says Philip K. Howard especially for teachers and doctors, whose work has been paralyzed by fear of suits. What's the answer? A lawyer himself, Howard has four propositions for simplifying US law.

The Japanese mine laying policy was effective at restricting the Russian movement of its ships outside Port Arthur when on 12 April 1904, two Russian battleships the flagship and the ran into a Japanese minefield off Port Arthur with both striking mines.

Following an increase in civilian mine casualties in the area along the Blue Line, a joint United Nations and Lebanese Army team conducted an assessment and subsequently initiated a programme to repair damaged or missing minefield fencing and erect new fencing where required.

From that evidence it is impossible to know the extent of the minefield or how many mines have been laid. Given the severity of the risk, local civilians are forced to avoid any area in which they know a mine has exploded.