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Mine Action as a Confidence Building Measure | 26-27 March 2007 | Almaty

MONDAY 26 MARCH

1. Opening Session

  • Kazakhstan – LTG Bulat Sembinov, Deputy Minister of Defense
  • Canada - General Maurice Baril (Ret), Special Advisor to the Ambassador for Mine Action
  • Slovenia - Mr. Stanislav Vidovič, Head of Security Policy Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs PDF 130KB Russian
  • OSCE - Ambassador Ivar Vikki, OSCE Centre Almaty
  • OSCE CiO - Ambassador H.E. Santiago Chamorro y González-Tablas, Spain
  • ICBL - Mrs. Sylvie Brigot, Executive Director of International Campaign to Ban Landmines
  • UNMAS - Mr. Maxwell Gaylard, Director of United Nations Mine Action Service

2. Setting the Scene: The nature of the problem and experiences in mine action to date

  • The humanitarian impact of mines: the problem, the solution – International Committee of the Red Cross – Eve La Haye, Legal Advisor in the Arms Unit PDF 18KB
  • International instruments on mine action – Kerry Brinkert, Manager the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention Implementation Support Unit, GICHD PDF 408KB
  • Military utility of anti-personnel mines – General Maurice Baril (Ret), Special Advisor to the Ambassador for Mine Action (Canada)s
  • Overview of the landmine problem in Central Asia and the South Caucasus - International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) PDF 2MB Russian

3. Solving the Mine Problem in Central Asia

  • Kazakhstan – LTG Dairov Muslim, Ministry of Defence of Kazakhstan PDF 53KB
  • Afghanistan – Zekriya Khaled, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan PDF 1.5MB and, General Baher Shafi Mohammad, Ministry of Defence of Afghanistan PDF 1MB
  • Tajikistan – Parviz Mavlonkulov, Tajikistan Mine Action Centre PDF 513KB
  • Turkmenistan – Major Gurbandurd Yangibayev, Ministry of Defence of Turkmenistan
  • Kyrgyzstan – Usupbaev Almazbek, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan
  • Mongolia – Sodnom Gankhuyag, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and, Otgonpurev Batsukh, Ministry of Defence of Mongolia
  • Solving the Mine Problem in the South Caucasus
  • Azerbaijan – Mr. Aziz Aliyev, Information Manager, Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action PDF 10MB

4. Mine action as a confidence building measure - models of regional cooperation

  • Cooperation, assistance and confidence building through mine action - John MacBride, Canada PDF 1.3MB
  • South Eastern Europe as a model of regional mine action cooperation - Goran Gacnik, International Trust Fund for Demining PDF 363KB English, PDF 520KB Russian
  • Tajikistan Demining Dog Centre: Working in cooperation with Afghanistan - Michael Storey, Federation Suisse Deminage (FSD) PDF 666KB

TUESDAY 27 MARCH

5. Addressing the needs of the survivors

  • Mine victims in Central Asia - Brimkulova Kanykey, ICBL Kyrgyz Committee  PDF 1.1MB Russian
  • Mine victim assistance in Afghanistan - United Nations Mine Action Centre Afghanistan - Mohammad Sediq, Operations Manager PDF 417MB
  • Mine survivors assistance in South Eastern Europe - Iztok Hočevar, Advisor for International Relations, International Trust Fund for Demining PDF 252KB
  • Physical rehabilitation in Tajikistan - Raffaello Mueller, Deputy Head of the ICRC regional delegation of Central Asia PDF 520KB

6. The Way Forward

  • The OSCE Role - Yurii Kryvonos, FSC Support Unit, CPC PDF 442KB Russian
  • The UN Role - Maxwell Gaylard, Director, United Nations Mine Action Service
  • The Role GICHD - Ian Mansfield, Operations Director, Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining PDF 249KB
  • Discussion

7.  International support for national mine action programmes

  • The Tajikistan Case - Abdulsaloh Rasulov, Programme Manager, Federation Suisse Deminage (FSD) PDF 1.3MB
  • The Afghanistan case - Mohammad Sediq, Operations Manager, UNMACA PDF 1.7MB
  • Russian Position on humanitarian demining – Mr. Vladimir Gavaza, President, Uniexp/League of Humanitarian Mine Clearance  PDF 486KB Russian and Mr. Anatoliy Malanchuk, representative of Ministry of Defense of Russian Federation PDF 8MB Russian

8. Closing Session

  • Co-Chairs’s summary of the workshop - General Maurice Baril (Ret), Special Advisor to the Ambassador for Mine Action (Canada) and Mr. Stanislav Vidovič, Head of Security Policy Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia
  • Closing Statement, Mr. Aiymdos Bozzhigitov, Head of Kazakhstan Ministry of Foreign Affairs representation in Almaty