April 4, 2011, marked the celebration of the International Day of Awareness for Anti Personnel Mines.

I quit my job to focus on the real world problem landmines.

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.

Mr. Koné (Mali) welcomed the efforts of the United Nations to rid the world of the threat of mines.

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.

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

If Governments and donors worked together, the reality of a mine free world could be achieved in years, not decades.

San Marino had financed a programme aimed at raising children's awareness of mines, which still significantly affected many regions in 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

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 and stockpiles 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)

Transfers of mines have virtually halted, large tracts of previously mined lands have been cleared and more than 31 million stockpiled mines have been destroyed.

Mines Other Than Anti Personnel Mines (MOTAPM)

Requiring all MOTAPM to be detectable is an important measure to help mine clearance organizations locate and clear dangerous areas quickly and safely.

Section VI Fuze design and sensors of MOTAPM

Stressing the need to convince mine affected States to halt new deployments of anti personnel mines in order to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of mine clearance operations,

Furthermore, Venezuela has for many years contributed to the mine clearance process in Central America and fully supports efforts to achieve the goal of a world free of anti personnel landmines.

With regard to post war humanitarian demining, the quantity of metallic material in MOTAPM has little substantive effect on reducing the difficulty of demining operations.

(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

Stressing the need to convince mine affected States to halt new deployments of anti personnel mines in order to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of mine clearance operations,

Stressing the need to convince mine affected States to halt new deployments of anti personnel mines in order to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of mine clearance operations,

Colombia has the fourth largest number of mine victims in the world victims of anti personnel mines, booby traps and mines other than anti personnel mines.

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.

For the above mentioned reasons, China is in favor of enhancing the efficiency of humanitarian demining efforts through developing advanced demining equipment and technology, instead of through modification of MOTAPM.

Stressing the need to convince mine affected States to halt new deployments of anti personnel mines in order to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of mine clearance operations,

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

This constitutes a vital promise for hundreds of thousands of mine victims around the world, as well as for their families and communities.

Another speaker said that landmines were used irresponsibly in some parts of the world and had injured women and children.

There are a number of regulations applicable to MOTAPM which are common to both instruments.

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 .

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.

The ICRC supports the efforts to reduce the potential problems caused by mines with sensitive fuzes in a future MOTAPM instrument.

Ms. Meyer (Canada) said that landmines and explosive remnants of war continued to litter many countries around the world.

The permitted purpose for which mines were used, the activity or project in which these mines were used, progress made or objectives realized in the use of these mines, the types and quantities of mines used and any other relevant information (e.g., the location of the use of the mines).

The nub of the MOTAPM problem lies in the way in which they are used, and not in their design.

(ii) To prohibit the use of MOTAPM, which are not detectable by commonly available mine detection equipment.

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