VIENNA TO DISCUSS MINE CLEARANCE VIENNA, March 8 (Hina) - The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is meeting in Vienna to discuss the problems of mine clearance and destruction of explosives left over from
war.
VIENNA, March 8 (Hina) - The Organisation for Security and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE) is meeting in Vienna to discuss the problems of mine
clearance and destruction of explosives left over from war.#L#
The meeting is being held ahead of the first review conference of the
Ottawa Convention, due to take place in late November in Nairobi.
Since Croatia currently chairs the Convention on Conventional Weapons
(CCW), its permanent representative to the OSCE, Vladimir Matek, spoke
of mine clearance activities in Croatia.
Matek called on OSCE members that have not yet joined the CCW and the
Ottawa Convention to do so and thus actively contribute to resolving
this global problem.
Croatia is one of the parties to the Ottawa Convention that fully bans
the production and use of land mines. Parties are committed to
destroying their mine stockpiles and to protecting and assisting
victims of land mines.
Croatia also chairs with Australia the Committee for the Care,
Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Mine Victims.
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