Navigating Lebanon s Political Minefield

Kashmir is a diplomatic minefield.

Technical Annex B Minefield Marking

The way ahead is a minefield.

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

But sometimes it is necessary to cross the 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).

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

As stated in the Australian Delegation's paper on Minefield Marking Methodologies it is not possible for most armies to change long established doctrine without giving them the appropriate time to adopt new equipment types, to consider new operational paradigms and to establish new operating procedures.

Also appeals to Member States to stand in solidarity with the Jamahiriya in its efforts to overcome this problem and its right to demand compensation for the damage and that the countries responsible for the mine danger, finance mine hunting operations and produce minefield maps to the Libyan authorities concerned.