Wasit announces its inability to combat mines and calls for international support

Wasit announces its inability to combat mines and calls for international support


 Wasit / Jabbar Bjay

Announced the Wasit Provincial Council, on Friday, that the Ministry of Health and the Environment to form a technical committee supreme to discuss the issue of mines in the border areas within the province, pointing to the "significant decline" in agricultural areas as a result of fear of the peasants of the projectiles and the remnants of war, as he emphasized that the local effort . " insufficient "and called for a national plan" major "international community participates.
The Chairman of the Committee on Health and Environment Council Khalid Alaajaoa in an interview with the (range), "The Ministry of Health and Environment has sent a technical team of specialists to the Wasit province, to discuss the issue of mines in the border areas of fields which are now threatening the lives of the population in those areas as a result of its deployment by widespread flooding and erosion factors. "
He added Alaajaoa, that " the technical delegation briefed the field on those fields which occupy a total area of approximately 167 km 2 in the border between Iran and the borders of the province of Wasit areas , " explaining that "the scattered fields have led to a significant decline in agricultural areas as a result of fear of farmers projectiles and remnants of war deployed in large quantities in their land in addition to the large damage to livestock is almost constant. "
The member of the Board of Wasit to, that "local efforts are no longer suitable for the lifting of those mines but there must be a large national strategy and an international effort to remove them permanently and keep the ghost of the population in those areas," returned to "local effort is not enough absolutely can not count it without a major national plan and the involvement of the international community in it. "
The Iraqi Organization for mine clearance have been reported in past reports that there are 1200 kilometers out of 0.1370 kilometers from the border between Iraq and Iran is mined and that the largest of these fields are located in the city of Badra in Wasit province, as some mines planted in depth of 10 meters
to 15 meters.
The experts in mine affairs indicated in the International Day for the definition of mine risk , which falls on the fourth of April \ April annually to the presence of more than 110 million planted mines in more than 64 countries, including Iraq, as the number of mines in which more than 27 million mines which what makes the share of the Iraqi individual mines and one can be killed him at any
moment.
The Supreme National Authority for Mine Affairs in the Ministry of Environment had indicated in previous reports her to the presence of millions of projectiles of war unexploded that spread in the central and southern regions after the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 war and still pose a challenge to the lives of people.

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