§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list the landmine clearance programmes in which her Department is involved. [144902]
§ Clare ShortMy Department is supporting the following landmine clearance programmes
Afghanistan—United Nations Mine Action Programme for AfghanistanAlbania—Stockpile clearance and weapons collection (co-funded)Bosnia—International Trust Fund for Mine clearance—Kupres regionCambodia—Mine clearance through Cambodia Mine Action Centre, HALO Trust and Mines Advisory Group7WCroatia—Mine clearance through United Nations Mine Action ServiceGeorgia—Mine clearance in Abkhazia via HALO TrustGuinea Bissau—Mine clearance via United Nations Development Programme and HUMAIDJordan—Equipment for mine clearance in Jordan Valley—Jordan GovernmentIraq—Mine clearance in northern Iraq via Mines Advisory GroupLaos—Unexploded ordnance clearance via Mines Advisory Group and United Nations Development ProgrammeMozambique—Mine clearance in Zambezia via HALO TrustNicaragua—Mine clearance North Atlantic Autonomous Region via Organisation of American StatesYugoslavia-FR—Mine clearance in Kosovo in support of United Nations Mine Action and Co-ordination Centre.The second progress report on all activities within my Department's Humanitarian Mine Action Programme was published in September 2000. A copy of the report has been placed in the Library of the House.