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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9167

5 April 2006
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/antipersonnel mines

04/04/2006 (Agence Europe) - During the UN's information day on anti-personnel mines and support for de-mining on 4 April, Rebecca Harms MEP, pointed out that seven years after the Ottawa Convention banned this kind of mine, “more than 300 mines are waiting in warehouses to be used”. As long as the USA, Russia, China and India continue to be the main mine manufacturers, hopes for being free of this scourge that creates around 20,000 victims a year, remain slim, averred the German Green....

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