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    More than 2 billion square metres.. Iraq needs 30 years to remove mines due to lack of funding

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    Alsumaria News - Security

    The Senior Director of the United Nations Mine Action Service, Per Lodhammer, expected that Iraq would need about 30 years to remove and clear explosive materials and ammunition from it due to lack of funding.


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    Lodhammer said, “International donors reduced financial grants related to removing explosive materials and ammunition after there were 20 donors in 2017,” explaining that “these donors consider Iraq to be a middle-income country, and that Iraq can finance these programs through the budget allocated for that.” ", according to the government newspaper Al-Sabah.



    He stressed "the necessity of allocating sums in government budgets to remove these explosive materials, which may cost the state billions of dinars, to enable the safe return of the displaced and adherence to the international treaties that Iraq signed in previous years."

    Lodhammer explained, "There are more than 2,700 square kilometers contaminated with explosive ordnance over the many wars and conflicts that Iraq has fought from 1980 to 2014, including conventional mines, innovative explosive devices, cluster munitions, and various types of munitions. It is unrealistic to get rid of them after four years." ", stressing that, "If Iraq wants to commit to removing all its mines in 2028, it must increase the funding allocated to these activities very significantly by the government."

    He pointed out that "the United Nations Mine Action Service, through its implementing partners, cleared more than two and a half million square meters of contaminated land, and removed more than 5,400 objects, the majority of which were mines from the Iraq-Iran war in the Shatt al-Arab region in Basra," expressing his regret. “The process was not completed due to lack of funding,” he said.
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    The international official expected that "the continued lack of funding by the Iraqi government may delay the closure of this file for about 30 years," calling for "the need for there to be serious funding by the government in this sector to get rid of mines and explosive materials in a relatively short time." 

    The competent authorities, locally and internationally, were able to cleanse more than 60% of the areas contaminated with war waste in Iraq, which amounts to about 6,500 square kilometers, leaving only 2,100 square kilometers remaining, which is equivalent to more than two billion square meters.
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