Mine blasts take terrible toll despite UN progress in eliminating explosives

United Nations, New York, 17 November 2009 - Dmitry Titov, Assistant Secretary-General for Rule of Law and Security Institutions in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, and Maxwell Kerley, Director of the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS), to provide an update and overview of the work of UNMAS.
With over 5,000 casualties last year from landmines that continue to indiscriminately kill and maim decades after they are laid, two senior United Nations officials today warned that, despite significant progress in ridding the world of these explosive devices, much more needs to be done.
Over the past two years over 41 million stockpiled anti-personnel mines have been destroyed, the Assistant-Secretary-General for Rule of Law and Security Institutions in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Dmitry Titov, told reporters in New York. And the production, transfer and sale of anti-personnel mines has stopped in many parts of the world.

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