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Four new countries land mine free
Four countries were declared free of landmines at the close of the Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World. They are Albania, Greece, Rwanda and Zambia.
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The meeting was the Second Review Conference of the Mine Ban Treaty signed in 1997.
The Summit in the Colombian city closed with more than 120 governments adopting the Cartagena Action Plan.
The five-year Plan calls on States Parties that have not yet destroyed their stockpiles of anti-personnel mines to do so without further delay. It also calls on those that still need to clear mined land to accelerate the return of safe land to affected communities.
During the conference, the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kyung-wha Kang urged states to focus their actions on landmine victims in especially vulnerable situations, such as children, women, and indigenous and rural populations.
Experts say assistance to landmine victims, their families, and communities is the area of mine action that has made the least progress in the last ten years.
Bissera Kostova, United Nations
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