MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for February 7th 2010
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Sunday, February 7th 2010 - 22:11 UTC
Falkland Islands de-mining pilot project and the challenge of full clearance
As a signatory to the Ottawa Convention, the United Kingdom is required under International Humanitarian Law to remove and destroy all anti-personnel landmines on its sovereign territory. About 20,000 landmines remain within clearly fenced and marked off areas on the Falkland Islands as a result of the 1982 conflict; while not all of these are anti-personnel mines, the United Kingdom is obliged to clear all the mined areas across both East and West Falklands under the Ottawa Convention.
