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Comprehensive Action against Anti-personnel Mines (AICMA) Activities in 2008

MINES. Secretariat for Multidimensional Security Department of Public Security Office of Humanitarian Mine Action. Comprehensive Action against Anti-personnel Mines (AICMA) Activities in 2008. Mandates. AG resolutions (the most recent):

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Comprehensive Action against Anti-personnel Mines (AICMA) Activities in 2008

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  1. MINES Secretariat for Multidimensional Security Department of Public Security Office of Humanitarian Mine Action Comprehensive Action against Anti-personnel Mines (AICMA) Activities in 2008

  2. Mandates • AG resolutions (the most recent): • AG/RES. 2261 (XXXVII-O/07) Support for Action against Antipersonnel Mines in Ecuador and Peru • AG/RES. 2269 (XXXVII-O/07) The Americas as an Antipersonnel-Land-Mine-Free Zone • Document of the PC of the OAS GT-PDCA-7-97, “The OAS Mine-Clearing Assistance Program in Central America: Responsibilities of Participants” of September 1997 • Framework Agreements between the GS/OAS and each beneficiary country

  3. Donors Australia Brazil Canada Denmark European Union France Germany Italy Japan Norway Holland Russian Federation South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom United States Contributors Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia El Salvador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua United States Venezuela Participants Beneficiaries Nicaragua Colombia Ecuador Peru Chile --------------- Finalized Argentina Costa Rica Guatemala Honduras Suriname

  4. Finalized Active Status of the program Honduras 1995 - 2004 Guatemala 1997 - 2005 Costa Rica 1996 - 2002 Nicaragua Began -1993 Suriname 2005 Colombia Began -2005 Ecuador Began - 2001 Argentina 2003 (only stockpiles) Peru Began - 2001 Chile Began - 2004

  5. Mine-Clearing Advances 2006 - 2007 • Colombia • Formation, equipping, and training of three more squads for mine-clearing operations • Start of humanitarian emergency operations • Clearing of 15% of minefields under military jurisdiction • Ecuador-Peru • Start of mine-clearing operations in Chiqueiza (Peru) • Agreement No. 5 among commanders of mine-clearing units • Use of TEMPEST (minesweeper equipment) • Nicaragua • 154,437 mines destroyed and certified out of the 169,029 sown • Clearing of 95% of the areas mined

  6. Further Achievements • Assistance of victims • Physical and psychological rehabilitation • Care for 1,050 survivors in Nicaragua (97%) • Identification of 47 survivors in Honduras, all of whose rehabilitation or medical care needs were met • Care for 26 survivors in Colombia and 11 in Ecuador • Vocational training • 217 survivors in Nicaragua • 35 survivors in Colombia currently being incorporated • Preventive education • Campaigns in Nicaragua, Honduras, and Ecuador • Destruction of ammunition and firearms • Destruction of approximately 500 tons of deteriorated ammunition in Nicaragua • Preparation of 18,000 light weapons (demobilized) for destruction in Colombia in December 2007

  7. Activities2008

  8. Bajo Grande Cerro Piojo DA DA Guadalupe E DA DA DA Caracoli DA DA Dabeiba DA E DA E Samaná DA E E DA E DA DA DA Corcorná DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA E DA DA E E DA E DA DA Campanario Captions Military minefield Cleared field Mine emergency zone Cleared zone DA DA DA DA E DA E Alguacil Gualy Montezuma La Maria DA Ricaulde Demining - Colombia • Mine-clearing units • 2 MF squads • 2 HEA squads • 41 sappers per squad • Minefields (34) • 5 cleared • 6 to be cleared • Emergency zones (12) • 1 cleared • 6 to be cleared

  9. Area of operations 2008 Santiago Cenepa sector Achuime sector Demining - Ecuador & Peru • Santiago sector of the Cordillera del Condor • Coordinated operations • Ecuador: 60 mine-clearers • Peru: 60 mine-clearers Cordillera del Condor

  10. DA DA DA DA DA F2 F4 DA DA F3 DA DA DA DA DA F1 DA DA F5 DA DA DA Demining - Nicaragua • Departments of Nueva Segovia and Jinotega • 41 mined areas • 15,000 mines • Mine-clearing units • 5 operations fronts • 460 mine-clearers

  11. Assistance of Victims Psychological care Accident Emergency phase Physical rehabilitation Skills improvement Reintegration into society • Diagnostic evaluation • Psychological care • Training • Projects scheduled: • Colombia • Ecuador • Nicaragua • Peru Community Mine-clearing units Ministry of Health AICMA-OAS • Date gathering • Medical care Training centers Rehabilitation center AICMA-OAS AICMA-OAS • Medical follow-up • Salary • Accommodation • Transportation • Training materials • AICMA-OAS: • Support for microenterprise • Post-training assistance

  12. Ammunition and weapons • Destruction of ammunition • Nicaragua Phase II (approx. 1,000 tons) • Evaluation, development, and planning • Guatemala • Ecuador • Regional training • Advanced course – destruction of ammunition

  13. Final considerations • The AICMA Program continues to facilitate achievement of the objectives of member states affected by mines. • Both donors and beneficiaries need to strengthen their commitments.

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