Assistance in Mine Clearance

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 155Assistance in mine clearance, published in 1993.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 1993–1998

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/52/173

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What subjects does this mandate have?

9 topics

Coordination Within UN System Economic Assistance Financing Humanitarian Assistance Landmines Material Remnants of War Mine Clearance Training Programmes Trust Funds

What does this mandate say?

7 operative paragraphs

Deplores the adverse consequences which can be caused by the failure to remove mines and other unexploded devices remaining in place after armed conflicts, and considers it a matter of urgency to correct the situation;

Stresses the importance of coordination by the United Nations of activities, including those by regional organizations, related to mine clearance, in particular those activities relating to information and training with a view to improving the effectiveness of operations in the field;

Invites all relevant programmes and bodies, multilateral or national, to include, in a coordinated manner, activities related to mine clearance in their humanitarian, social and economic assistance activities; __________ 2/ A/47/277-S/24111.

3/ A/47/965-S/25944.

4/ S/25344.

5/ See The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, vol. 5:

1980 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.81.IX.4), appendix VII.

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Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly, before its forty-ninth session, a comprehensive report on the problems caused by the increasing presence of mines and other unexploded devices resulting from armed conflicts and on the manner in which the United Nations contribution to the solution of problems relating to mine clearance could be strengthened;

Also requests the Secretary-General to include in his report consideration of the financial aspects of activities related to mine clearance and, in this context, of the advisability of establishing a voluntary trust fund to finance, in particular, information and training programmes relating to mine clearance and to facilitate the launching of mine-clearance operations;

Urges all Member States to extend full assistance and cooperation to the Secretary-General in this respect and to provide him with any information and data which could be useful in drawing up the above-mentioned report;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-ninth session the item entitled "Assistance in mine clearance".

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