Hand emplaced mines There are no specific references to hand emplaced mines in this section of the Coordinator's paper.

Second, prohibition on the use of persistent MOTAPM located outside a perimeter marked area.

The lack of strong rules on hand emplaced mines would significantly reduce the effectiveness of a new MOTAPM instrument.

Whereas Amended Protocol II prohibits the use of long lived hand emplaced AP mines outside perimeter marked areas, the Coordinator's paper contains neither geographical limits on hand emplaced MOTAPM nor binding rules to limit their active life.

Afghanistan's 'green zone', a stretch of fertile, cultivated ground along the Helmand River Valley.

China holds the view that the biggest difficulty in post conflict demining operations is the clearance of the MOTAPM minefields emplaced by a State on foreign territory, as in most cases that foreign State where the minefields are located has little knowledge about the function of the MOTAPM emplaced as well as the most effective method to clear them.

6. Renews its call upon all States and other relevant parties to work together to promote, support and advance the care, rehabilitation and social and economic reintegration of mine victims, mine risk education programmes, and the removal of anti personnel mines placed throughout the world and the assurance of their destruction

6. Renews its call upon all States and other relevant parties to work together to promote, support and advance the care, rehabilitation and social and economic reintegration of mine victims, mine risk education programmes and the removal and destruction of anti personnel mines placed or stockpiled throughout the world

Renews its call upon all States and other relevant parties to work together to promote, support and advance the care, rehabilitation and social and economic reintegration of mine victims, mine risk education programmes and the removal and destruction of anti personnel mines placed or stockpiled throughout the world

6. Renews its call upon all States and other relevant parties to work together to promote, support and advance the care, rehabilitation and social and economic reintegration of mine victims, mine risk education programmes and the removal and destruction of anti personnel mines placed or stockpiled throughout the world

6. Renews its call upon all States and other relevant parties to work together to promote, support and advance the care, rehabilitation and social and economic reintegration of mine victims, mine risk education programmes and the removal and destruction of anti personnel mines placed or stockpiled throughout the world

The purchases in Africa alone amount to an area of agricultural land the size of Kenya.

Landmines laid close to villages and fields were a constant danger, and an Israeli nuclear waste site near the Syrian border posed an ecological threat.

A recommendation that hand emplaced mines have SD SN SDA features is included as a best practice in Technical Annex B.

(3) Suriname has reported fulfillment of its obligation to clear all anti personnel mines from mined areas under its jurisdiction or control, joining Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Djibouti and Honduras in achieving this important milestone.

This package solution has incorporated many elements from the 30 Nations Proposal , the German proposal on sensitive fuzes, the Irish proposal on MOTAPM laid outside perimeter marked area as well as the Coordinator's Paper.

Believing it necessary to do the utmost to contribute in an efficient and coordinated manner to facing the challenge of removing anti personnel mines placed throughout the world and to assure their destruction,

Believing it necessary to do the utmost to contribute in an efficient and coordinated manner to facing the challenge of removing anti personnel mines placed throughout the world and to assure their destruction,

As a result, cultivated land resources comprise a mere 5 per cent of the total land area, representing 22 million hectares of land, with very limited scope for expansion.

6. Renews its call upon all States and other relevant parties to work together to promote, support and advance the care, rehabilitation and social and economic reintegration of mine victims, mine awareness programmes, and the removal of anti personnel mines placed throughout the world and the assurance of their destruction

6. Renews its call upon all States and other relevant parties to work together to promote, support and advance the care, rehabilitation and social and economic reintegration of mine victims, mine awareness programmes, and the removal of anti personnel mines placed throughout the world and the assurance of their destruction

Believing it necessary to do the utmost to contribute in an efficient and coordinated manner to facing the challenge of removing anti personnel mines placed throughout the world, and to ensure their destruction,

Believing it necessary to do the utmost to contribute in an efficient and coordinated manner to facing the challenge of removing anti personnel mines placed throughout the world, and to assure their destruction,

Believing it necessary to do the utmost to contribute in an efficient and coordinated manner to facing the challenge of removing anti personnel mines placed throughout the world and to assure their destruction,

Believing it necessary to do the utmost to contribute in an efficient and coordinated manner to facing the challenge of removing anti personnel mines placed throughout the world and to assure their destruction,

Together with its implementing partners, the United Nations was now working in an environment where more mines came out of the ground than were planted each year.

(i) To endeavor to develop advanced mine detection technology and equipment (such as non metallic mine detectors and detectors adopting the working principle of infrared thermovision or soil dielectric coefficient), so to improve the efficiency of detecting MOTAPM through various ways and means.

There is medium certainty that population growth and increase in food demand will drive an expansion of cultivated land, often at the expense of woodlands and rangelands.

Culturable area in the basin is about 203,000 km2, which is 10.4 of the total culturable area of the country.

Grassland to forested land Cropland to forested land Wetland to forested land Settlement to forested land.

proposal on mines other than anti personnel mines (motapm)

Mines Other Than Anti Personnel Mines (MOTAPM)

Mines Other Than Anti Personnel Mines (MOTAPM)

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Section VI Fuze design and sensors of MOTAPM

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.

(d) Landmines other than anti personnel mines

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.

Colombia had destroyed its stock of more than 18,000 anti personnel mines, but demining was also essential as a component of a comprehensive policy of land recovery that would ensure the security of its rural sectors.

Rapamycin is now used to prevent the immune system from rejecting transplanted organs.

We remain as determined as ever to secure our achievements to date, to sustain and strengthen cooperation under the Convention, and to spare no effort to meet our challenges in universalizing the Convention, destroying stockpiled mines, clearing mined areas and assisting the victims.

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 .