Written question asked by Tom Cox (Labour) on Tuesday, 9 January 2001, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 15 January 2001. It was answered by Clare Short (Labour) on Monday, 15 January 2001 on behalf of the Department for International Development.

Dept for International Development

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, if she will list the landmine clearance programmes in which her Department is involved. - Includes ref to second progress report on Department's Humanitarian Mine Action Programme, copy in Library.

Answer: Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list the landmine clearance programmes in which her Department is involved. [144902] Clare Short: My Department is supporting the following landmine clearance programmes: Afghanistan--United Nations Mine Action Programme for Afghanistan Albania--Stockpile clearance and weapons collection (co-funded) Bosnia--International Trust Fund for Mine clearance--Kupres region Cambodia--Mine clearance through Cambodia Mine Action Centre, HALO Trust and Mines Advisory Group Croatia--Mine clearance through United Nations Mine Action Service Georgia--Mine clearance in Abkhazia via HALO Trust Guinea Bissau--Mine clearance via United Nations Development Programme and HUMAID Jordan--Equipment for mine clearance in Jordan Valley-- Jordan Government Iraq--Mine clearance in northern Iraq via Mines Advisory Group Laos--Unexploded ordnance clearance via Mines Advisory Group and United Nations Development Programme Mozambique--Mine clearance in Zambezia via HALO Trust Nicaragua--Mine clearance North Atlantic Autonomous Region via Organisation of American States Yugoslavia-FR--Mine clearance in Kosovo in support of United Nations Mine Action and Co-ordination Centre. The second progress report on all activities within my Department's Humanitarian Mine Action Programme was published in September 2000. A copy of the report has been placed in the Library of the House.

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