| He also organized demining operations, as he had done on other former battlefields. |
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| Mine training focuses on the soldier's ability to work with and teach demining operations to indigenous personnel and foreign troops. |
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| These auxiliary duties would include weapons disposal, demining, and support for disaster relief operations. |
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| Some experts believe that at the current rate of demining it will be 90 years before the country is mine free. |
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| The other available demining strategies include clearance, destruction of stockpiles and the universalisation of the concept of the convention. |
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| Mike, 44-year-old ex-soldier and now a civilian bomb disposal and demining expert, is a brave man. |
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| It's on rich volcanic rocks making demining after the war slow and difficult. |
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| For the record, in terms of security, as he pointed out, there is demining activity. |
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| These trends present a potentially significant threat to demining organisations, which may also have to disarm them in the future. |
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| Experts also met to discuss military demobilization, military and police training, demining, and counternarcotics issues and alternative development. |
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| I note with regret that no further progress has been achieved during the reporting period on demining. |
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| Arrangements for the continuation of MAPE in Albania and of the demining mission in Croatia. |
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| In order to enhance existing humanitarian mineclearing capacity, provision has been made for an additional demining team member. |
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| The army has set up six demining platoons, but these are not keeping pace with the problem. |
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| One good example of United Nations partnership with dedicated NGOs is the demining programme in Afghanistan. |
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| In addition to its numerous development activities, it carries out demining operations. |
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| In September, South African sappers began work demining hundreds of kilometers of piste road from the Kenyan border to the rebel-held town of Rumbek. |
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| There are several agencies that have been mandated to work in the areas of displaced persons, demining and demobilization, for example. |
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| I note with satisfaction the progress in demining efforts in the buffer zone. |
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| Both demining groups were approached for comment: MAG did not immediately respond, while FSD declined to issue a statement. |
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| All summer they've been demining the field around the golf course, square meter by square meter. |
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| At the same time, it is an important confidence-building measure that implies cooperation among the countries of the region in the area of demining. |
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| In particular, France pays tribute to the memory of the soldiers of the Spanish contingent who were killed on 24 June and the French demining expert killed while performing his duties. |
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| The activities in Colombia also need to be highlighted, where the humanitarian demining of two additional mine fields of the original 34 under the Colombian State's jurisdiction has been completed. |
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| Despite the emerging hope that the US will sign the Ottawa Treaty, there was a distinct lack of enthusiasm for funding demining and victim assistance actions on the part of the state parties. |
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| Certain demining and awareness-raising operations have been carried out by the military engineers of the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
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| The demining teams of handlers and their dogs risk their lives in the complex task of turning the war-torn lands into fields and villages where Afghans can rebuild their farms and livelihoods. |
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| In these situations, disarmament activities such as demining and the collection and destruction of weapons eliminate not only the physical threat posed by these weapons, but also the fear and insecurity they engender. |
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| The humanitarian demining program has also made a valuable contribution to the widespread problem of antipersonnel mines, a legacy of times that should never again darken our region. |
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| In 2008, AICMA supported, for the first time, the demining of zones mined by lawless groups in the departments of Antioquia and Bolívar, where 75,037 square meters, 100 mines, and 261 planted explosive devices were cleared. |
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| Yet something along the lines of an American-led generational fund to hasten the modernization of Vietnam's health-care system, accelerate its slow demining work, and remediate its environment would be manageable — and just. |
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| However, even if IND certifies that a road segment has been entirely cleared, ANE still requires the prime contractor to sub-contract a demining firm to complete another survey and clearance operation. |
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| During the course of clearance in support of road rehabilitation in Afghanistan a demining agency surface-cleared an area adjacent to the road, which had been selected as a borrow pit by road reconstruction engineers. |
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| Fourthly, the laying of mines in the territories of third countries should be prohibited, and countries laying them should either demine or pay for the demining. |
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| Concerning international demining efforts, the Royal Government of Cambodia has been deploying deminers of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces to Sudan for mine clearance action under the umbrella of the United Nations. |
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| In conducting its evaluations in Kosovo, NPA found that the confidence among local people in demining increased over time as local participation increased. |
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| In a confirmed minefield the mechanical flails will never be used as a single tool and will always need to be complemented by manual demining or Mine Detection Dogs. |
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| Approximately 394 Belgians have served in Lebanon, in demining and medical operations, and a frigate is also present. |
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| Washington, Maryland to be used as a ruggedized, immediately deployable mine awareness and demining instruction tool in Eritrea. |
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| While demining efforts have been under way across Cambodia for more than 15 years, the violent aftereffects of three decades of war are still being felt. |
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| China also donated demining equipment to each country. |
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| However, nineteen states that should have completed their demining operations asked for an extension to finish the process, revealing the scale of the task to be accomplished. |
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| It will also involve helping to ensure the security of the population by conducting demining activities and implementing a programme to combat the proliferation of small arms and light weapons. |
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| Most efforts to develop or introduce new technology for humanitarian demining now attempt to bring end user input into the exercise from the beginning. |
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| In the framework of the project, Gazprom had earlier given two contracts, the first for Al Khalij Al Arabi Company, an Iraqi demining company in order to demine the field. |
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| Due to the adaptive possibilities of the pedipulators to obstacles, the robot can adjust the working position of the demining sensors while searching landmines. |
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