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57 159. Assistance in mine action

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5.42 The Mine Action Service is funded from the support account for peacekeeping operations and the Voluntary Trust Fund for assistance in Mine Action.

Assistance in mine action item 27 .

The Mine Action Service played a key role in policymaking, coordination and advocacy, and the Organization was open to Member States' suggestions on the coordination, integration and scope of mine action.

China had joined the Mine Action Support Group in 2003.

Agenda item 27 Assistance in mine action

Ethiopia had undertaken various forms of mine action aimed at resolving the problem.

To that end, it was integrating mine action into its national development plans.

He welcomed the integrated approach that the Organization was taking with regard to mine action by coordinating the departments, programmes, funds and agencies concerned through the Mine Action Service and the Steering Committee on Mine Action.

In the United Nations system, 10 partners were concerned with mine action, with the United Nations Mine Action Service acting as the overall coordinator.

Consistent with the Mission's mandate, the UNMEE Mine Action Coordination Centre ensured the implementation of a well coordinated United Nations mine action response in the Mission area.

Take into account the special needs of women and girls in all mine action programmes.

Agenda item 27 Assistance in mine action (continued)

Indeed, effective coordination and increased national ownership were fundamental to the success of mine action.

Lastly, he commanded the work carried out by the Mine Action Service and by non governmental organizations.

Switzerland recognized the important role of UNMAS as the focal point for mine action within the United Nations system and looked forward to the revised United Nations mine action policy.

Those steps would diversify the resource base for mine action, help to meet mine action targets, and contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

62 99. Assistance in mine actionAs referred to in previous resolutions of the General Assembly on assistance in mine clearance and on assistance in mine action.

Mine action should be further integrated into both the humanitarian and development agendas.

Welcoming the various established mine action coordination centres, as well as the creation and existence of international trust funds for mine clearance and other mine action activities,

Welcoming the mine action coordination centres already established under the auspices of the United Nations, as well as the creation of international trust funds for mine clearance and mine assistance,

Mine action coordination

Mr. Getachew (Ethiopia) said that his country attached considerable importance to the issue of mine action, recognizing it as an essential element of the humanitarian and development activities of the United Nations, in which the Mine Action Service played a key role.

Firstly, the Mine Action Rapid Response Plan had been successfully tried out in Iraq.

To make better use of resources, mine action needed to be coordinated at the lowest possible level.

One of the issues discussed by the Group was the mainstreaming of mine action into development projects.

Noting with appreciation the extent to which the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action has been commemorated worldwide,

The United Nations Mine Action Office conducted pre deployment training of deminers in Egypt, Kenya, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Cambodia. Kenyan and Egyptian companies have been accredited and are ready for deployment.

Welcoming the mine action coordination centres already established under the auspices of the United Nations, as well as the creation of international trust funds for mine clearance and other mine action activities,

Mr. Flanagan (Mine Action Service, Department of Peacekeeping Operations) reviewed several notable achievements over the past five years under each of the six strategic goals of the United Nations mine action strategy.

The variance of 148,200 is due mainly to the proposed requirements for freight charges and the pilot programmes being implemented by the Information Technology Services Division.

Donor countries contributing funds to mine action should refer to the Portfolio of Mine Action Projects a unique reference tool that allowed donors to assess country needs in a clear and standardized format.

The previous year's report of the Secretary General on assistance in mine action (A 59 284) had recognized that donors should support mine action from their development and reconstruction budgets as well as their humanitarian emergency budgets.

As demonstrated by the advances made in integrating mine action into the United Nations Consolidated Appeals Process, efforts should be made to ensure the sustainability of support and, where relevant, to integrate mine action into relevant ongoing activities.

(i) Booklets, fact sheets, wallcharts, information kits e mine website, updated with mine action reports, public information materials and operational data from five mine action programmes in peacekeeping operations

In the case of Cyprus, cooperative mine action was actually contributing to peacebuilding between the two sides.

D Verification and quality assessment of mine clearance work is the responsibility solely of UNMEE MACC.

The United Nations had an important role to play in mine action. The implementing agencies of the United Nations should continue to include mine action in their regular activities whenever appropriate.

The Group was also very much involved in mine action projects as a contribution to peace processes since mine action was often one of the first issues on which parties in dispute could agree in peace negotiations.

It was one of her country's priorities to ensure that its support for mine action was gender sensitive it believed that it was important to secure the participation of women in all areas of mine action.

6. Encourages affected States to proactively mainstream mine action and victim assistance requirements into development plans and processes to ensure that development priorities include mine action and that mine action is predictably funded