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Charles Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what steps the Government is taking to eliminate theproblem of landmines; and what funding was made available to countries affected by landmines in the last year for which figures areavailable. [218884]Hilary Benn: The following table lists DFID's contributions to global mine action in financial year 2003-04._________________________________________________________________________________________________.£United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)--Core Support 650,000United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS)--Core Support 2,000,000United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)--Core Support 600,000Research and Knowledge 1,766,720Ottawa Sponsorship Programme (support to poor countries to enable 16,660attendance at international mine action meetings).Angola--HALO Trust demining (Road Verification) 117,650Angola--Mines Advisory Group (MAG) demining via UN office of 100,000Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)Angola--UNDP Capacity Building 300,000Afghanistan--UNMAS Demining 2,000,000Cambodia (MAG) 271,250Iraq--(MAG) demining S Iraq 781,639Iraq--UNMAS Demining 4,357,378Iraq MAG Preparedness 80,883N Caucasus--UNICEF Mine Risk Education, Victim Support 60,000Sudan UNMAS 1,000,000HALO Other 32,402Total 14,134,582_________________________________________________________________________________________________.In addition the UK share of European Community global mine action for the calendar year 2003 (the latest year for which we havefigures), was £2.9 Million. |