Strategic Planning for the Mine Action Programme in Afghanistan
COTIPSO Thesis: Approved
Student: Van Der Linden, Filip
Completion Date: Jan 2004
An excerpt from the thesis:
Landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) contamination affects virtually every segment of the Afghan society and economic activity to some degree. Mine Action therefore has been identified as a very important and cross-cutting issue by the Afghan Government. On July 28 2002, President Hamid Karzai announced that Afghanistan would become a member state to the Mine Ban Treaty (MBT)1. Consequently, after laying down the instruments of ratification in the United Nations Secretariat in September 2002, Afghanistan officially became the 126th state to ratify the Treaty. Related to the MBT obligations2, the target dates for Afghanistan are April 2007 for stockpile destruction and April 2013 for clearance of all mined areas.
