Tag: de-mining

• Saturday, February 16th 2013 - 10:09 UTC

  Fifty experts are mine-clearing three areas next to Falklands’ capital

  

  The BACTEC team is now fully deployed in the Falkland Islands clearing three minefields: two in the vicinity of Mile Pond and Mullet creek and the third south of the water tanks on the Stanley to Darwin and Goose Green Road. The mine-clearance project for these areas should be over by the end of March.

• Monday, December 17th 2012 - 06:29 UTC

  In January begins third phase of Argentine landmine clearance in the Falklands

  

  The third phase of explosive ordnance and landmine clearance in the Falkland Islands is scheduled to begin next January and extend until March 2013 and is programmed to concentrate in the surrounding of the capital Stanley.

• Saturday, December 15th 2012 - 20:56 UTC

  Peru and Chile sign next week ‘free of mines’ designated areas along their border

  

  Next week Chile and Peru will have concluded sweeping their border of anti personnel and anti tank mines, announced Claudio de la Puente, head of the Latin American Desk at the Peruvian Foreign ministry.

• Monday, October 15th 2012 - 07:19 UTC

  Norwegian financed team of experts begins demining in Chile-Peru border areas

  

  A group of experts from Norway begins on Monday demining tasks along the Chile-Peru border which are expected to last for at least two months, according to a release from the Chilean Foreign Ministry.

• Monday, September 24th 2012 - 03:23 UTC

  Chilean Army begins October demining of route leading to Torres del Paine park

  

  The Chilean Army is scheduled to begin in October the clearance of anti-tank mines which are distributed on the sides of the route leading to the national Park of Torres del Paine from Puerto Natales and which were planted during the seventies at the height of a conflict with Argentina that almost ended in a full-fledged war.

• Tuesday, August 7th 2012 - 15:24 UTC

  Norwegian organization to help with demining in the Chile-Peru border

  

  Chilean and Peruvian authorities meet Friday in Lima with the humanitarian organization Norwegian People’s Aid which will be responsible for the demining of the two countries border area, announced Peruvian Foreign minister Rafael Roncaglio.

• Thursday, May 24th 2012 - 04:59 UTC

  Peruvian president expected in Chile for historic visit, but details are pending

  

  The trip of Peruvian president Ollanta Humala to Chile next month to attend the Pacific Alliance summit is subject to an agreement on de-mining the shared border, announced on Wednesday from Lima Peruvian Foreign Minister Rafael Roncagliolo.

• Tuesday, March 20th 2012 - 22:10 UTC

  Falklands recovers community land 30 after the war, following mines’ clearance

  

  Thirty years after the end of the South Atlantic conflict, the people of the Falkland Islands will be recovering an iconic leisure ground which remained banned for three decades because of the mines planted by the retreating Argentine forces that invaded the Islands 2 April 1982.

• Sunday, January 22nd 2012 - 05:22 UTC

  Falklands operation to release land from Argentine planted antipersonnel mines

  

  A project to release land from antipersonnel mines planted by the Argentine invaded forces during the 1982 Falklands conflict is “progressing solidly” said Guy Lucas, Chief Executive Officer from BACTEC a group which specializes in explosive ordnance, mine action and bomb disposal.

• Wednesday, January 4th 2012 - 15:50 UTC

  Falklands’ “land release” demining phase begins next week with 18 Zimbabweans

  

  The team from BACTEC International Ltd that will be carrying out the second phase of the demining pilot project is in the Falklands are in the Islands and will look to release significant areas of land behind the Stanley Common fence to the South-west of the capital.