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Article 5: Mine Action

For the Nairobi Summit, regarding Mine Action: Mine Clearance, Mine Risk Education and Mine Action Technologies, ICBL will work to ensure States Parties:

1. Identify and prioritise all mined areas for clearance.

2. Increase their efforts to perimeter-mark, monitor and protect mined areas awaiting clearance in order to ensure the effective exclusion of civilians.

3. Increase and implement mine risk education programmes.

4. Conduct mine risk education in conjunction with marking and clearance to ensure the effectiveness of mine risk education programmes,

5. Involve all relevant actors in mine action coordination and prioritisation, to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of mine clearance

6. Develop and implement their national plans to fulfil their obligations : complete clearance and destruction of all mines by the deadline

7. Make their needs for assistance known

8. Provide assistance responding to priorities articulated by mine-affected States Parties, including ensuring that existing manual clearance teams are consistently funded and effectively and fully deployed.

9. Develop or use mine action technology which is cost-efficient, affordable, effective, sustainable and appropriate to local conditions.

10. Continue to report on their 4Ps (Plans, Priorities, Progress, Problems) in their article 7 annual report and in the framework of Intersessional Work Programme and regional meetings

Target countries:

The 40+ mine-affected States Parties which have a deadline for mine clearance under Article 5 of the Convention.

Encourage the following States Parties who have indicated that they can fulfill their Article 5 obligations prior to or soon after the Nairobi Summit to do so and state it publicly:

  • Cyprus
  • France
  • Guatemala
  • Honduras
  • Macedonia, FYR of
  • Namibia
  • Nicaragua
  • Suriname
  • Swaziland
  • Zambia

Encourage the following States Parties that have provided very little information regarding their mine clearance “4Ps” to share them before Nairobi:

  • Angola
  • Congo, Republic of
  • Cyprus
  • Guinea Bissau
  • Macedonia, FYR of
  • Mauritania
  • Malawi
  • Namibia
  • Niger
  • Serbia and Montenegro
  • Swaziland
  • Tunisia
  • Uganda
  • Venezuela

For more information see the Landmine Monitor Fact sheet on the implementation of Article 5.