Mozambique confirms it is
land mine free Mozambique has formally confirmed that it is free of land mines.
The declaration was made at a meeting in Geneva of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling,
Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, commonly known as the Ottawa Convention.
The announcement was made by Mozambique’s Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Pedro Comissario, who stressed that “the greatest indicator of our success is not the number of square metres cleared or the number of land mines
destroyed,but the incalculable
improvement to the development of Mozambique and the removal of fear from our communities”. He added, “a great measure of success is that 2015 will mark the first year in decades without any new landmine casualties”.
The director of the National Demining Institute (IND),Alberto Augusto, lamented that“land mines have claimed tens of thousands of victims in our territory,and leave behind a large number of land mine
survivors who require assistance, care and rehabilitation, as well as social and economic reintegration in society,on an equal basis with others as mandated by the
Convention”.
In addition to having cleared all known anti-personnel mines, Mozambique has also destroyed 37,818 stockpiled mines. Land mines had been planted during three conflicts – during the colonial war prior to Mozambican independence in 1975, during the incursions by the Rhodesian armed forces in the late 1970s, and during the war of destabilisation waged
by the apartheid regime through the Renamo rebels up to the peace agreement signed in October 1992.
Since 2000 about 214,700 land mines have been removed and destroyed. Comissario was confirming the declaration made in Maputo on 17 September by Foreign Minister Oldemiro Baloi.
At the time, Baloi said Mozambique had become the first of the five most severely mined countries in the world to comply with the mine clearance obligations of the Ottawa Convention (the other four are Afghanistan,Cambodia, Angola and South Sudan)Original article
land mine free Mozambique has formally confirmed that it is free of land mines.
The declaration was made at a meeting in Geneva of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling,
Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, commonly known as the Ottawa Convention.
The announcement was made by Mozambique’s Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Pedro Comissario, who stressed that “the greatest indicator of our success is not the number of square metres cleared or the number of land mines
destroyed,but the incalculable
improvement to the development of Mozambique and the removal of fear from our communities”. He added, “a great measure of success is that 2015 will mark the first year in decades without any new landmine casualties”.
The director of the National Demining Institute (IND),Alberto Augusto, lamented that“land mines have claimed tens of thousands of victims in our territory,and leave behind a large number of land mine
survivors who require assistance, care and rehabilitation, as well as social and economic reintegration in society,on an equal basis with others as mandated by the
Convention”.
In addition to having cleared all known anti-personnel mines, Mozambique has also destroyed 37,818 stockpiled mines. Land mines had been planted during three conflicts – during the colonial war prior to Mozambican independence in 1975, during the incursions by the Rhodesian armed forces in the late 1970s, and during the war of destabilisation waged
by the apartheid regime through the Renamo rebels up to the peace agreement signed in October 1992.
Since 2000 about 214,700 land mines have been removed and destroyed. Comissario was confirming the declaration made in Maputo on 17 September by Foreign Minister Oldemiro Baloi.
At the time, Baloi said Mozambique had become the first of the five most severely mined countries in the world to comply with the mine clearance obligations of the Ottawa Convention (the other four are Afghanistan,Cambodia, Angola and South Sudan)Original article
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