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.

Protection from the effects of MOTAPMs, and minefields and mined areas of MOTAPMs

And this is just one of a number of mines, 10 mines so far right now.

proposal on mines other than anti personnel mines (motapm)

Mines Other Than Anti Personnel Mines (MOTAPM)

Now, then, what do you say to coffee... and most charming company? It is hard to forget your comrades' fate, I know... but our feminine guest is easily perturbed. If I could beg you to put a good face upon the matter.

You found one?

It continued to be a leader in humanitarian mine action throughout the world, allocating 89 million in 2004 for mine clearance, mine risk education, demining technology research and development and survivor assistance projects in 54 countries.

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

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.

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

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.

By having joined the Convention, 144 of the world's States have accepted a legally binding prohibition on transfers of anti personnel mines.

Section VI Fuze design and sensors of MOTAPM

(d) Landmines other than anti personnel mines

The term minefield includes phoney minefields.

Mines

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

Landmine Survivors Network

Mines and explosive remnants of war

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

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,

Working Group on Mines Other Than Anti Personnel Mines

It is prohibited to use a non detectable MOTAPM, subject to the exclusions specified below.

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.

(h) All feasible precautions shall be taken to protect civilians from the effects of MOTAPMs.

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.

(c) Effective management and security of stockpiles and transport of MOTAPMs

USE, RECORDING AND REMOVAL OF MOTAPMS, AND MINEFIELDS AND MINED AREAS OF MOTAPMS

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.

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

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

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,