| The rather more rare anti-personnel rockets will spew out fragments up to 30 feet or more. |
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| The use of anti-personnel weapons in urban areas where they endanger large numbers of civilians is a violation of international law. |
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| These bombs were not just lethal and nasty anti-personnel weapons but were also at the time highly classified. |
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| The fragments would shred an aeroplane's fuselage and render it inoperable, making the anti-personnel bombs very effective on airfield raids. |
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| To reduce or eliminate the use of certain weapons that are indiscriminate in character, such as anti-personnel landmines. |
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| It has also been widely used as an anti-personnel weapon, in battle and in terrorist attacks. |
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| The 2,000 arrows and nearly 150 longbows found on board reflect the continuing reliance on traditional methods of anti-personnel artillery. |
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| In the 1990s, outrage about the continuing manufacture and trade in anti-personnel weapons steadily grew. |
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| That is necessary to achieve our goal that there should be no more anti-personnel mine victims. |
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| Compared to canister, case-shot projectiles had a greater effective range when used as an anti-personnel weapon. |
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| Approaches were obstructed by anti-tank and anti-personnel mines and barbed wire, and covered by anti-tank guns and machine-guns. |
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| We will be producing a communication on anti-personnel landmines, actually the use of sensor equipment. |
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| Production of anti-personnel mines has dropped dramatically and official trade in this weapon has virtually ended. |
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| Nuclear, biological and chemical weapons as well as anti-personnel mines are to disappear from the world completely. |
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| What does one suppose has been the consequence of all that flooding over the last few days, moving those anti-personnel mines around? |
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| The other workshop helps people injured by anti-personnel mines or suffering from polio. |
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| An American soldier in the Vietnam War was about to step on an anti-personnel landmine that was hidden from his sight. |
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| The other aspect in which I would like us to take a leadership role is the banning of land mines and anti-personnel devices. |
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| Canada has continued to provide leadership in addressing the issue of anti-personnel mines in Africa, the most mine-affected continent. |
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| This makes it one of the fifteen leading donor countries in the area of anti-personnel mines. |
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| It includes a commitment by Mongolia to accede to the Ottawa Convention on anti-personnel landmines. |
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| International trade with anti-personnel mines has meanwhile been brought to a standstill. |
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| As you can easily imagine, this creates a very different reality to that of clearance of anti-personnel landmines. |
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| Smoke and CS grenades can be used to flush out men in cellars and sewers, while white phosphorous grenades can be used to create smoke or as an anti-personnel weapon. |
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| He would be even angrier at those who manufacture and sell the anti-personnel landmines that kill 200 equally innocent, but non-Australian people, every couple of days. |
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| Millions of live anti-personnel mines planted all over Cambodia are still killing and mutilating mainly civilians, many of whom are children. |
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| The majority are so-called dual-purpose, combining armor-piercing and anti-personnel fragmentation effects. |
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| The later culverin was transitional between the handgun and the full cannon, and was used as an anti-personnel weapon. |
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| Mine actions shall be integrated into all country and cooperation strategies of such third countries which suffer from the consequences of anti-personnel landmines. |
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| I would ask that we take a leadership role in asking for the land mines and the anti-personnel devices to be put in the convention for conventional weapons and put in a similar category to chemical weapons. |
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| Concern continues to be expressed about the presence of anti-personnel landmines and other unexploded ordnance in a number of public facilities, such as schools. |
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| However, it is now becoming more accepted that the illegal proliferation and misuse of light weapons pose different and more complex problems than banning anti-personnel landmines. |
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| After the successful realization of a convention banning anti-personnel mines, there is a need to help landmine survivors participate in the ongoing debates related to landmines. |
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| The mines were intended as anti-personnel devices, jury-rigged claymores. |
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| As we have heard, there is almost universal agreement on the need to tackle the terrible problems caused by anti-personnel mines. |
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| Morocco, which has not signed the 1997 Ottawa Convention that bans anti-personnel mines, is believed to have sown about seven million mines in the region. |
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| Villagers and internally displaced persons, including children, in locations along the eastern border areas of Myanmar continue to suffer serious threats to their lives from the effects of the use of anti-personnel mines. |
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| Despite the sceptics and disbelievers, we brought about the adoption of an international convention on anti-personnel mines. |
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| Its most serious known effect is liver cancer about 10-15 yeafterftexposureure, so it is not exactly a shock anti-personnel weapon. Gas gangrene. |
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| These included 10 anti-personnel mines, 20 land mines, four light anti-tank weapons, automatic rifles and ammunition, explosives and related material, and thermobaric weapons. |
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| Anti-tank and anti-personnel mines had been used both offensively and defensively on all the fronts throughout the war. |
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| I am reminded that China also continues to stockpile enormous quantities of anti-personnel landmines. |
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| The last two who walked into the anti-personnel minefield were quite badly wounded. |
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| Fifthly, we agree that it is necessary to put an end to the terrible humanitarian consequences of cluster bombs and anti-personnel landmines. |
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| The GICHD focuses on eliminating anti-personnel mines, reducing the dangers for the civilian population and clearing land mines and duds of all kinds. |
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| They can be heavy enough to detonate an anti-personnel mine. Sniffing safelyA clever way around that comes from MECHEM, a subsidiary of Denel, a South African defence contractor. |
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| During the reporting period, the Royal Moroccan Army reportedly cleared 128,000,000 square metres and destroyed 621 anti-personnel mines, 138 anti-tank mines and 473 large-calibre pieces of unexploded ordnances. |
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| My first assignment was to redesign a proximity fuse for anti-personnel shells because the original manufacturer couldn't get it to work. |
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| Faced with the distress and suffering of an increasingly large number of anti-personnel mine victims, the association decided to work towards achieving a mine ban by condemning the cynicism and baseness of these weapons. |
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| Another issue close to the heart of my delegation is the humanitarian consequences of explosive remnants of war, including cluster munition remnants, and of anti-personnel landmines. |
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| For many years I have worked to overcome the problem of anti-personnel landmines, but I have always sought to focus attention on the real culprits, who use such weapons indiscriminately and irresponsibly. |
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| The end of the Cold War brought improved security overall, but it also left a dangerous legacy of aging arms, ammunition, anti-personnel mines, missiles, rocket fuel, chemicals and unexploded ordnance. |
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| One hundred and forty-nine States have ratified the Convention and have accepted the comprehensive approach to end the suffering caused by anti-personnel mines for all people for all time. |
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| Millions of anti-personnel mines lying in the ground all over Cambodia continue to kill and mutilate people, especially children, even after the end of the war there. |
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| We voted in favour of the few passages that propose banning anti-personnel mines, while being aware that the proposals are quite irresolute and will not become a reality. |
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| Heavily armed, their anti-personnel and anti-vehicular fire power enables them to crush the local forces of law and order, who are generally ill-equipped. |
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| Assistance to victims and survivors is of fundamental importance for the future and continues to be a priority for Switzerland, as survivors of anti-personnel mines are going to be in need for the rest of their lives. |
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| It also believes that the problem of anti-personnel mines should not be seen only from the humanitarian viewpoint and that mine action can also contribute to a policy of peace. |
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| More civilians than soldiers have been blown up by anti-personnel mines. |
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| The BfR Combat Boot, designed to be used as standard military issue, features a patented technology, which helps protect the wearer against anti-personnel landmines. |
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