Tag: landmines

• Monday, March 9th 2015 - 07:39 UTC

  Colombia and FARC agree to clear minefields; 11.000 people killed in 15 years

  

  Colombian government and Marxist oriented guerrillas jointly announced an agreement to remove landmines and other explosives from the battlefield in a sign of progress in their two-year-old peace talks being held in Cuba.

• 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.

• Thursday, October 4th 2012 - 10:32 UTC

  Belgium provides financial support for demining programs in Ecuador and Peru

  

  Belgium signed on Wednesday an agreement with the Organization of American States (OAS) to provide financial support for the program “Landmine Victim Assistance in Ecuador and Peru,” carried out by the OAS.

• Monday, May 28th 2012 - 08:01 UTC

  Anti-tank mine in Chile/Peru border blows up taxi; the two countries pledge closer cooperation

  

  The president of the Chilean Lower House Foreign Affairs committee, Jorge Tarud said on Sunday that Chile is fully complying with the Ottawa Convention and with the timetable to finish de-mining tasks along the Peruvian border.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 19:56 UTC

  Record level funding for mine-clearance but increased use of antipersonnel mines

  

  The latest report on landmines has both good and bad news. It says governments have provided a record level of funding to remove the weapons. But at the same time the use of antipersonnel mines has increased.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 06:11 UTC

  Colombian Army uncovers 2.000 FARC landmines; most casualties civilians

  

  The Colombian army has found 1,961 landmines this year that were planted by FARC guerrillas in Putumayo, a jungle province on Colombia’s southern border with Ecuador and Peru, military spokesmen said.