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The Third International Mine Action Conference was held in Baku and Zangilan in Azerbaijan, which is one of the world’s leading five mine-contaminated locations.
Mining and improvised explosive devices, especially in areas of armed conflict, reason death and injury worldwide. According to statistics, there are about 110 million mines in 60 countries, with an additional two to five million mines laid each month.
More than 300 people from 75 nations gathered to discuss ways to organize financial resources to combat the use of violent remnants of conflict and mine.
Azerbaijan is a lab for charitable demining and mine activity, according to Hikmet Hajiyev, Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan and Head of the Department of Foreign Policy Affairs. Azerbaijan has gained specialized knowledge and expertise, and it will be able to contribute to another humanitarian demining jobs around the world once the demining project is finished.
There are two main categories of landmines: anti-personnel ( AP ) and anti-tank ( AT ). Anti-personnel mine are smaller than anti-tank mine and are designed to kill or injure people. They require a small amount of pressure, sometimes as little as 5-15 pounds, to ignite. Anti-tank mines are designed to eliminate vehicles such as tanks and armoured vehicles and require little more tension, usually more than 100 pounds, to explode.
” Mines are a true crime against humanity. A plastic bag in the lake will disintegrate in 200 decades, but a landmine not. Mines may continue to pollute the environment”, says Alessandra Roccasalvo, UNDP Resident Representative in Azerbaijan.
One man is killed or injured by incendiary devices on average every hour. Some children are among the victims. Roots of Peace, a philanthropic organization that aims to stop landmines and promote the transformation and reconstruction of war-torn areas, is led by Heidi Kühn as CEO and founder. Speaking to Euronews, she noted,” I’ve been to battlefields all over the world, and every time you do, they ask you for your body type. It’s a fundamental time. I look pretty, pretty carefully under my legs because I have four kids. Why do I perform that”?
” It only takes three weight to set off a spot. That’s the typical weight of a newborn child. Thus, as a mother and grandmother, I think this is a global call to action from the heart of Karabakh to the whole world”, she added.
The most important globe in terms of mining is Africa, with Mozambique, Somalia, and Angola being the most important. The loss of one or more arms is the most frequently caused damage by a stone explosion. In the United States there is one surgery for every 22, 000 people, and in Angola there are 30 for every 10, 000 individuals. In contrast, a great deal of property is rendered unusable. It ca n’t be farmed or repopulated, and the environmental impact can be simply catastrophic.
” There could be leaking of TNT degradation products, leading to soil and groundwater contamination. Additionally, the explosion’s carbon monoxide poisons the surroundings. After each explosion of an anti-tank mine, 29 kilograms of carbon dioxide are released”, said Samir Poladov, deputy chairman of the board of the Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action ( ANAMA ).
Additionally, the convention called for expanding global cooperation in the field of humanitarian demining. Ambassador Elchin Amirbayov, the Azerbaijani President’s Representative for Special Assignments, said:” Partners may pay more attention to the allocation of funds to the most afflicted countries. If this problem is not addressed worldwide, it will not be possible to solve it in specific nations.
Azerbaijan has” contributed to solving this problem” by introducing the 18th Sustainable Development Goal, which is charitable demining, at the federal level, he added.