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UN Joint Mine Action Coordination Team in Libya.
Giovanni Diffidenti

Ban urges accession to pact prohibiting use of indiscriminate weapons

9 November 2011
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for universal accession to the United Nations convention that prohibits the use of certain indiscriminate weapons that cause unnecessary suffering to combatants or civilians, including landmines, booby-traps and other explosive devices.
Photo: UNDP/Arne Hodalic
UNDP/Arne Hodalic

General Assembly calls for greater efforts to remove threat of landmines, munitions

28 October 2011
The General Assembly today called on countries, institutions and United Nations agencies to step up their collective efforts to eliminate the threat posed by landmines, cluster munitions and other explosive remnants of war (ERW) as the number of deaths and injuries worldwide from such hazards continues to fall.