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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 6. december 2004 / Time Line December 6, 2004
Version 3.55. December 2004, 7. December 2004
12/06/2004
Nations embrace anti-mine action plan
NAIROBI, (IRIN) - The summit on a mine-free world ended in the
Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Friday with delegates adopting a
declaration renewing their commitment to rid the world of the
weapons and endorsing a comprehensive five-year plan aimed at
expediting the clearance and destruction of landmines.
"We renew our unwavering commitment to achieving the goal of a
world free of anti-personnel mines in which there will be zero new
victims," the delegates said in their Nairobi Declaration. "We will
strengthen our efforts to clear mined areas and destroy stockpiled
anti-personnel mines in accordance with our time-bound obligations.
We will assist mine victims and vigorously promote the universal
acceptance of the convention [against landmines]."
The summit was the first review conference of the 1997 UN
Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production
and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines, also known as the Ottawa
Convention. The convention was ratified by 144 countries and is
looking for new member states.
According to the Landmine Monitor Report 2004, published by the
ICBL, there are currently 300,000 to 400,000 mine survivors. In
2003, 86 percent of the new casualties reported were civilians and
23 percent children, according to the report.
SEE: IRIN Web Special on Humanitarian Mine Action, (with special
focus on the 2004 Nairobi Summit of a Mine Free World).
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