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

Transfer involves, in addition to the physical movement of MOTAPM into or from national territory, the transfer of title to and control over the MOTAPM, but does not involve the transfer of territory containing emplaced MOTAPMs.

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.

A MOTAPM emplaced in a perimeter marked area is excluded from the detectability requirement of this chapter.

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.

We were too close to where the mine was planted, so when the train hit it, pieces of metal fell like a shower of fireworks all about us.

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

Well, I would think they would be interested... maybe some historian, in all that land lying fallow.

The presence of mines still blocks the return of displaced persons, hinders the achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals that we have pledged to meet, and impedes states and peoples from building confidence between one another. Much more is required to ensure that mined areas are cleared by the Convention's deadlines, that mine victims receive the needed care, and

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

(ii) if necessary in order effectively to protect such personnel, remove or render harmless, so far as it is able, all MOTAPMs, in that area and

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

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

Right through my plowed ground.

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.

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.

(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.

The Convention is clear that fulfilling obligations to destroy stockpiled antipersonnel mines and to clear mined areas is the responsibility of each individual State Party, just as ensuring the well being of a country's citizens including mine victims is a national responsibility.

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.

Clearing mined areas

Palm tree plantation in Borneo.

(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.

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,

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

proposal on mines other than anti personnel mines (motapm)

Mines Other Than Anti Personnel Mines (MOTAPM)

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 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,

Mines Other Than Anti Personnel Mines (MOTAPM)

States should, to the extent feasible, follow the best practices on fuze design stipulated in Technical Annex B, paragraph 3.

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

Section VI Fuze design and sensors of MOTAPM

(d) Landmines other than anti personnel mines

The term minefield includes phoney minefields.