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STORY: UN / MINE ACTION DAY
TRT: 3.18
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 4 APRIL 2014, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
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4 APRIL 2014, NEW YORK CITY
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Dmitry Titov, Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions at DPKO:
“This year as part of the push by the United Nations and in particular the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) we are focusing on the increasing participation of women in mine action. We know quite well from our experience that women are as good at demining as are men and sometimes are better.”
5. Med shot, attendants at the press briefing
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Dmitry Titov, Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions at DPKO:
“Twenty five percent is also an interesting figure, this is the number of women working in DPKO at mine action service. Thanks to colleagues there and most probably Agnes in particular. These are women running UNMAS, leading field based operations and helping dispose bombs in the most dangerous and challenging conditions of this world.”
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Agnes Marcaillou, UNMAS Director:
“We are talking about mine awareness there because landmines are still there years and decades after the conflict is over. Anti-personal mines, but also anti-tanks mines and mines that are maybe anti-vehicles but which tend to detonate when a couple of children walk around. So, this is the kind of contamination that we face in 3/4 of the world.”
9. Med shot, press conference attendants
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Agnes Marcaillou, UNMAS Director:
“What the Mine Action Service does is facilitate the deployment of the peacekeepers, facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance. We assist, we advice, we train, we equip the defense and security forces when we are in a PKO or in a political mission context like in Libya for instance. We also were very proudly the humanitarian gap when UNMAS is entrusted with the responsibility of advising, supporting, facilitating the work of the humanitarian community at large.”
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12.SOUNDBITE (English) Kazuyoshi Umemoto, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Japan and Chair of the Mine Action Support Group:
“Thanks to the dedicated efforts of men and women on the ground, both in governments, military, private sectors and also international organizations, such as UN, we made a lot of progress, but –at the same time- we have a long way to go to achieve a world free of landmines and for that purpose a sustained and continued effort on the part of the member States is indispensable.”
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Women's participation is crucial at all stages of mine action from surveying mined areas to deciding where to begin clearance, according to the United Nations.
In a press conference at UN Headquarters in New York, the Head of the Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions at DPKO said “we know quite well from our experience that women are as good at demining as are men and sometimes are better.”
He also said that twenty five percent “is the number of women working in DPKO at mine action service,” adding in “these are women running UNMAS, leading field based operations and helping dispose bombs in the most dangerous and challenging conditions of this world.”
Also speaking to reporters, the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) director Agnes Marcaillou said “landmines are still there years and decades after the conflict is over. Anti-personal mines, but also anti-tanks mines and mines that are maybe anti-vehicles but which tend to detonate when a couple of children walk around. So, this is the kind of contamination that we face in 3/4 of the world.”
She underlined “what the Mine Action Service does is facilitate the deployment of the peacekeepers, facilitate the delivery of humanitarian assistance.”
The head of UNMAS added “we assist, we advice, we train, we equip the defense and security forces when we are in a PKO or in a political mission context like in Libya for instance. We also were very proudly the humanitarian gap when UNMAS is entrusted with the responsibility of advising, supporting, facilitating the work of the humanitarian community at large.”
The Chair of the Mine Action Support Group and Deputy Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Japan Kazuyoshi Umemoto noted that thanks to the efforts of the international community “a lot of progress” was achieved.
He also said “but –at the same time- we have a long way to go to achieve a world free of landmines and for that purpose a sustained and continued effort on the part of the member States is indispensable.”
According to the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS), 10 people are killed or maimed by a landmine every single day. Mine action entails more than removing landmines from the ground. It includes actions ranging from teaching people how to protect themselves from danger in a mine-affected environment to advocating for a mine-free world.
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