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| Co-chairs: | Cambodia
France | Mr.Ieng Mouly, President, C-MAC
M. Samuel de Beauvais, Ambassador, Mine action | | Rapporteurs: | Germany
Yemen | Mr.Ernst Joachim Döring, Auswärtiges Amt
Major Mansour Al Azzi |
I. GENERAL ASPECTS
I.1. Introduction
The SCE shall carry on the implementation of the mandate entrusted to it at Maputo a year ago. It shall prepare, in a realistic and objective spirit, recommendations for the 2nd meeting of States-Parties, next September at Geneva .
I.2. Participation
It is open to the various components of the international demining community : States-Parties, States signatories, States concerned by demining, international and regional organizations, NGOs, Research and Development entities, industries concerned, qualified personalities, actors in the field of demining.
I.3. Mandate of the SCE
The first session was chiefly devoted to the precise identification of the needs of endusers ; the second one's primary objective shall be to reinforce the information of deminers and deciders on technologies presently or soon available, on the new standards to be implemented, and on the axes of research which to-day appear to be most promising in the medium term.
I.4. Themes of the second session
The SCE shall successively cover : - · Technologies indispensable to deminers ;
- · Norms and standards ;
- · Most promising technologies in the medium term.
II. AGENDA
Wednesday 24 May 200
9h00 - 9h30 : Introductory remarks
- Co-chairs
- UNMAS
- GICHD
- ICBL
9h30 - 10h45 : Technologies indispensable to deminers
- Personal protection equipment
new PPEstandards(GICHD/Cranfield University)
current PPE use and utility (META/HI/Kosovo, C-MAC)
technology advances and constraints (GICHD/UWA)
10h45 - 11h00 : Coffee break
11h00 - 11h10 : Video presentation (Nicaragua)
11h10 - 12h30 : Dogs (UNMAS/GICHD, HI/Bosnie, APM/Bihac, C-MAC, META, Syed Aqa)
12h30 - 14h30 : Lunch
14h30 - 16h00 : Information technologie:
- IMSMA (GICHD/UNMAS/ETH)
- Interconnexion, compatibility, non-duplication (JMU)
16h00 - 16h15 : Coffee break
16h15 - 18h00 : Mechanical equipment (HI, NPA ; MAK/BIPALOG ;
C-MAC, CROMAC, IND-Mmozambique, MACC-Kosovo, Syed Aqa ;
18h30 Reception hosted by the Director of the GICHD
Restaurant Vieux- Bois, av. de la Paix 12, Geneva
Thursday 25 May 2000
9h30 - 11-00 : Norms and standards
- United Nations standards (UNMAS/GICHD)
- Survey terms (UNMAS)
- Level 1 survey action (Syed Aqa)
- Quality management, risk management ( Cranfield University )
11h00 - 11h15 : Coffee break
11h15 - 12h30 : Most promising technologies in the medium term
- Presentations (IAEA, JMU)
- Discussion (GICHD, UWA))
12h30 - 14h30 : Lunch
14h30 - 16h00 : Prospects for detection: (Prof R. Voles/Mr. Acheroy/Mr. Suart)
16h00 - 16h15 : Coffee break
16h15 : Conclusions |
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