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.

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Section VI Fuze design and sensors of MOTAPM

He recommended modern languages instead of classical languages and modern rather than ancient history.

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,

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.

If We pleased We could have put angels in place of you as trustees on the earth .

And if We willed , We could have established angels on the earth instead of you .

Had We willed , We would have appointed angels among you to be successors in the earth .

And had We willed We could have appointed angels born of you in the earth to succeed each other .

And if it were Our Will , We would have destroyed you ( mankind ) all , and made angels to replace you on the earth . Tafsir At Tabari , Vol 25 , Page 89 .

Had We willed , We would have made of you angels to be successors on earth .

If We had so willed We could have made some of you into angels to become your successors on earth .

And had We willed We could have set among you angels to be viceroys in the earth .

Had We wished We would have set angels in your stead to be your successors on the earth .

Had it been Our Will We would have made angels among you as successors in the earth .

And if We willed , We could have made instead of you angels succeeding one another on the earth .

Had We wanted , We could have made the angels as your successors on the earth .

And if We please , We could make among you angels to be successors in the land .

if We had so wished , We could have appointed angels in exchange for you to succeed you on the earth .

And if it were Our Will , We could make angels from amongst you , succeeding each other on the earth .

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.

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.

As most professional armed forces believe that their MOTAPM are intended to protect national territory and have corps to clear such mines, this could potentially remove large numbers of MOTAPM from the detectability obligation.