UN calls for a world free from the threat of mines and other remnants of war

Thursday, April 4th 2013 - 07:28 UTC

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On 8 December 2005, the UN General Assembly declared that 4 April of each year shall be observed as the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action. To that effect UN Secretary General has released a message. Read full article

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brucey-babe
Oh goody, perhaps the U.N. can ask Argentina to collect all the land mines they left willy-nilly in the Falkland Islands.
Apr 04th, 2013 - 10:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Shed-time
@1 The UN De-Landmine Committee, like the Human Rights Committee and Decolonisation Committee is quite likely to be full of the worst offenders in the world of using land-mines. In addition I'd expect Cuba, Syria, Ecuador, Venezuela and other Argentine chums to fill up the ranks. They'd spend 98% of their time discussing how to get extra land.

Typical UN nonsense.
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