(d) Landmines other than anti personnel mines

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(j) To refrain without delay from the use of landmines

(b) To halt without delay the use of landmines

These tragedies occur due to the easy availability of landmines.

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Thus Russia has shown its readiness to solve the landmine problem.

Singapore's position on anti personnel landmines has been clear and open.

The presence of landmines had a crucial impact on development.

The lack of provision of adequate care and assistance for victims affected by landmines is to be very much regretted.

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

Furthermore, the Government of Kazakhstan has banned the export and transit of landmines.

Livestock are understood regularly to be maimed or killed in landmine incidents.

There was also an ongoing need to meet the needs of landmine survivors.

Pakistan's position on the question of anti personnel landmines is well known.

The problem of landmines was that most of those who suffered were civilians.

By March 2003, we had destroyed all our stockpiles of anti personnel mines.

The prevalence of landmines had in many cases stunted economic growth.

Noting the accession of Afghanistan to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti personnel Mines and on Their Destruction,See CD 1478.

(xi) The use of weapons, including landmines, and indiscriminate artillery shelling against the civilian population

The European Union provided social, economic and medical assistance to countries affected by landmines.

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India has set up a number of camps for the fitting of artificial limbs to landmine victims in Afghanistan.

It would be difficult to bring about a universal ban on landmines unless and until viable alternatives were available.

The Ethiopian Mine Action Office, established with the mandate of carrying out humanitarian demining and related activities, had overseen the clearance of 17.9 million square metres of land, the destruction of 18,330 landmines and items of unexploded ordnance, and the provision of landmine risk education to 2,388,084 people.

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Welcoming the role of the Secretary General in increasing public awareness of the problem of landmines,

In Nepal, an assessment was undertaken of the impact of landmines and unexploded ordinance on women and children and UNICEF took a lead in coordinating mine risk education.

Commending also the role of the Secretary General in increasing public awareness of the problem of landmines,

Noting the continued efforts of the Community to make Southern Africa a landmine free zone,

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

A speaker said that in Africa, landmines had harmed many innocent people, especially children.

Myanmar is, in principle, in favour of banning the export, transfer and indiscriminate use of anti personnel mines.

In this connection we welcome the creation of the Forum of Mine Affected Countries, FOMAC, an instrument aimed at strengthening international cooperation towards achieving the objective of a world free from landmines.

As of mid 2004, over one third of landmines had been removed from Jordanian territory, and the aim was for the country to be free of mines by 2009.

Guest at noon Mr. Dermot Carty, Landmines Coordinator, Landmines and Small Arms Team, United Nations Children's Fund (on Portfolio of Mine Action Projects 2006 )

At the Nairobi Summit on a Mine Free World, a child addressed the States party to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stickpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, contributing to renewed commitment by the international community eliminate the threat of landmines.

Peer support is a fundamental strategy in the rehabilitation of landmine survivors in Afghanistan, Bosnia, El Salvador and Vietnam.

We believe that the protocol offers the best possible solution to the landmine problem and is realistic from the viewpoint of effective implementation.

Anti personnel landmines and explosive remnants of war inflicted death and injury around the world.

In addition, landmines are being used on the front line as a measure of deterrence and in order to prevent possible attacks and the resumption of hostilities.

A blanket ban on all types of anti personnel landmines might therefore be counter productive.

Mr. Ortega (Ecuador) said that his country shared the Organization's vision of a world completely free of landmines.

In Angola, one of the most seriously mine affected countries in the world, landmines were impeding humanitarian and development work, endangering lives and hindering economic recovery.