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Maliki calls for cooperation to cleanse the land of the Iraqi mine threat
Thursday, April 26 / April 2012 15:40
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, on Thursday, to unite the efforts of the ministries and institutions involved in mine clearance and to increase cooperation and coordination between the various land clearing Iraqi mine threat.
A statement issued today by the Office of the Prime Minister, and received "Alsumaria News", a copy of it, "Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki presided over a meeting of the Higher Committee for Demining to discuss the status of a national strategy for mine clearance and the formation of the Department of specialized mission accomplish everything on this subject as soon as as possible. "
The statement added that "the prime minister called on to unite the efforts of the ministries and institutions involved in mine clearance and to increase cooperation and coordination between the various parties to clean up the territory of Iraq from the threat of mines."
And warned the Iraqi Ministry of Environment, in (5 this April), the seriousness of the impact of mines and explosive remnants of war on investment projects in the country, saying that the percentage achieved by Iraq in this area, "very small" compared with the millions of mines and unexploded Almnfelq inside Iraqi territory.
The United Nations Mission in Iraq called for, in (4 this April), to make the country free of mines by 2018, confirming its commitment to support mine action programs.
The Ministry of Environment, in (February 19, 2012), in Basra conducted with other ministries implementing a project to re-assign areas contaminated by mines and unexploded ordnance in the provinces of Basra, Muthanna, Maysan, while the Council has called recent Iraqi government to allow him to allocate part of the funds of the province to clean up some areas of mine.
And stresses the competent international organizations that Iraq contains a quarter of the number of mines planted in the world, and suggest sources in the environment ministry to the presence of more than 25 million mines in the whole of Iraq, with estimates of informal to the presence of between 10 and 11 million mines in the territory of Kurdistan, where planted Most of these mines during the Iran-Iraq war, which lasted for eight years and the first Gulf War in 1990.
It is noteworthy that Iraq ratified in 2007 on the Ottawa Treaty to ban the use of mines, and must be under the treaty to destroy all stockpiles of mines during the year 2012, and purge its territory of mines by February 2018, as confirmed by the Ministry of Environment of Iraq, in 2010, Iraq's inability to fulfill the terms of Ottawa Treaty.
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