11 May in 5:00 Anadolu Agency
According to United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), presently, landmines, cluster munitions, and explosive remnants of war (ERW) are found in over 70 countries and seven territories. It is essential to conceive that most countries and territories affected by these weapons are among the least developed countries. These weapons not only claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, mostly civilians, over the last decades and constitute an imminent deadly threat to millions of people’s lives and livelihoods.
Anadolu Agency reports that only in 2020, the UN recorded 4,663 civilian casualties caused by mines, ERWs, and cluster munitions. They also have a significant negative impact on post-conflict recovery and development as they undermine aid distribution, land cultivation, and construction and restoration of infrastructure and housing facilities.
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Why mine action matters: humanitarian diplomacy in Southeast Asia
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As UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab visits Brunei-Darussalam the current chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to strengthen ties and invest in long term partnerships as a force for good in the region, MAG takes a look at the positive humanitarian, economic, and diplomatic role of mine action.
Around the world, landmines and unexploded bombs claim lives long after war has ended on average, 15 people are killed or injured every day. These indiscriminate weapons also have a crippling impact on development, preventing land from being farmed, children from going to school, and keeping families and communities trapped in poverty.
Description Expressing deep concern over the high number of civilian casualties caused by landmines, explosive war remnants and improvised explosive devices, the Security Council today reiterated its call on belligerents to “immediately and definitively” end the indiscriminate use of such weapons, as senior Government officials debated ways to rid the world of a pernicious legacy.
In a presidential statement (S/PRST/2021/8) issued by Viet Nam’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, who presided over today’s virtual ministerial debate as Council President for April, Governments called for strengthened implementation of resolution 2365 (2017), the 15-member organ’s first stand-alone text on mine action.