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Laos to sign UN Convention on Cluster Munitions
Laos to sign UN Convention on Cluster Munitions
(KPL) As Laos is the World’s most bombarded country, she will sign the United Nations Convention on Cluster Munitions in early December this year.
“This agreement is very meaningful as it deals with unexploded ordnance in Laos and their life span could go on for generations, said Major Gen. Douangchai Phichith, Minister of National Defence and Chairman of the National Regulatory Authority Board, when he spoke at the Southeast Asia Regional Conference on the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Xiengkhuang province last week.
According to a nation-wide survey on the effects of unexploded ordnance on the socio-economic development of Laos in 1996, 14 out of 17 provinces and Vientiane Capital still have UXOs and as many as 25 per cent of the villages in the country are suffering from the effects of the presence of UXOs, a legacy of the long Indochina wars.
The UXOs were scattered on 87,213 sq km of land in the country. However, 12,427 sq km of land are considered to be a high risk area and another area, 74,786 sq km are a moderately risky patch of land.
(KPL) As Laos is the World’s most bombarded country, she will sign the United Nations Convention on Cluster Munitions in early December this year.
“This agreement is very meaningful as it deals with unexploded ordnance in Laos and their life span could go on for generations, said Major Gen. Douangchai Phichith, Minister of National Defence and Chairman of the National Regulatory Authority Board, when he spoke at the Southeast Asia Regional Conference on the Convention on Cluster Munitions in Xiengkhuang province last week.
According to a nation-wide survey on the effects of unexploded ordnance on the socio-economic development of Laos in 1996, 14 out of 17 provinces and Vientiane Capital still have UXOs and as many as 25 per cent of the villages in the country are suffering from the effects of the presence of UXOs, a legacy of the long Indochina wars.
The UXOs were scattered on 87,213 sq km of land in the country. However, 12,427 sq km of land are considered to be a high risk area and another area, 74,786 sq km are a moderately risky patch of land.
