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Clearing Cluster Munition Remnants of War OVERVIEW CLEARING CLUSTER MUNITION REMNANTS 2019 A REPORT BY MINE ACTION REVIEW FOR THE NINTH MEETING OF STATES PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS THIS REPORT IS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD AT WWW.MINEACTIONREVIEW.ORG 1 August 2019 MINE ACTION REVIEW ADVISORY BOARD: mineactionreview.org i A REPORT BY MINE ACTION REVIEW FOR THE NINTH MEETING OF STATES PARTIES TO THE CONVENTION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS Sudan Bosnia and Herzegovina Somalia Tajikistan Serbia United Kingdom South Sudan Yemen Croatia Afghanistan Iran Vietnam Chad Montenegro Cambodia Kosovo Iraq Angola Chile Georgia DR Congo Azerbaijan Germany Ukraine Syria Western Sahara Nagorno-Karabakh Libya Lao People’s Democratic Republic Lebanon Acknowledgements Disclaimer This report was researched and written by Nick The report and the views expressed in it are the work of Cumming-Bruce, Alex Frost, Katherine Harrison, the authors. The designation of armed non-state actors, and Lucy Pinches. The Mine Action Review project is states, or territories does not imply any judgement by The managed by Lucy Pinches. The report was edited by HALO Trust, MAG, NPA, the Royal Norwegian Ministry Stuart Casey-Maslen and laid out by Optima Design in of Foreign Affairs, or any other organisation, body, or the United Kingdom. The HALO Trust, Mines Advisory individual regarding the legal status of such actors, Group (MAG), and Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) form states, or territories, or their authorities and institutions, the project’s Advisory Board. Mine Action Review would or the delimitation of their boundaries, or the status of like to thank the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign any states or territories that border them. Affairs for funding its work as well as all those who contributed data and information. Other information This publication is available for download at www.mineactionreview.org •ii Global Clearing contamination Cluster Munition from cluster Remnants munition 2019 remnants FOREWORD We warmly welcome the global results for 2018 in the not yet done so, and must put in place concrete plans to clearance of cluster munition remnants – the highest address the contamination as soon as possible and by ever recorded by Mine Action Review. Clearance of 128 their Article 4 deadline. This is entirely achievable for all square kilometres of hazardous area and the associated but the most heavily contaminated states. A failure to do destruction of more than 135,000 unexploded submunitions so is a failure in leadership, above all else. is a tremendous achievement. This shows what can be Strong leadership also includes making gender and done when all parties commit to challenging and improving diversity integral components of an effective mine the status quo. In many countries, remarkable efforts are action programme, including one addressing cluster being made to rid the world of these dangerous explosive munition remnants. This year’s ‘Clearing Cluster Munition remnants of war. The innovation of Cluster Munition Remnants’ country reports include Mine Action Review’s Remnant Survey (CMRS) in South-east Asia, used to tackle new set of strengthened criteria to assess national legacy contamination, is a good example of affected nations programme performance, including a separate criterion exploring new approaches to addressing a decades-long on gender for the first time. Findings from the new problem, moving towards evidence-based survey and criterion on gender have drawn out what we have felt clearance, enabling states to build a realistic picture of in the sector for years: that the mine action community actual contamination. has significant work to do to improve its understanding But it is also important to highlight that progress in and approach to gender. Mine Action Review was forced implementing international law on cluster munitions is to drop diversity from the gender criterion, as there was uneven. Some states have been duly striving to destroy simply insufficient data available to analyse this. We need remnants “as soon as possible”, as the Convention on to be honest about how much work is still needed with Cluster Munitions (CCM) requires. In others, efforts respect to integrating a gender-sensitive perspective have fallen well short. Based on the experiences of to mine action and the approach must be to focus on the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention (APMBC), meaningful change, not tokenism and targets. The fact of the states that negotiated the CCM in 2008 were clear the APMBC and CCM Review Conferences falling back-to- that only those states that were the most heavily back in 2019 and 2020 offers an excellent opportunity for contaminated, such as the Lao People’s Democratic honest reflection, to further the discussion on gender and Republic, should need – and be granted – an extension diversity, and to take action to improve. to their clearance deadlines. By working together, we can and we will do better. The Fourth Review Conference of the APMBC will take States and operators working in concert to survey and place shortly in Oslo. This should be a springboard not clear areas of contamination in an efficient and targeted just for increased mine clearance but also for faster manner, and supported by the requisite management and progress across the entire mine action sector. The analysis of information, illustrate what innovation and Second CCM Review Conference is itself being convened coordination can accomplish. We will certainly continue next year. This must be a moment at which we are able to do our part to destroy submunitions as quickly and as to celebrate success and plan for even greater success safely as possible to assist states to comply with their in the future. All affected states parties must take obligations under the CCM and international human rights meaningful efforts to understand clearly the extent of law. We call on all states – parties and non-parties to the cluster munition remnant contamination, if they have Convention alike – to do the same. JANE COCKING PER HÅKON BREIVIK JAMES COWAN CBE DSO Chief Executive Director Chief Executive Officer Mines Advisory Group Department for Mine Action and Disarmament The HALO Trust Norwegian People’s Aid mineactionreview.org iii CLEARING CLUSTER MUNITION REMNANTS CONTENTS OVERVIEW STATES NOT PARTY Summary 1 Azerbaijan 122 States that have Completed Cambodia 125 CMR Clearance 2 Georgia 133 Global Contamination 2 Iran 136 Clearance in 2018 3 Libya 138 Treaty Deadlines for Clearance 5 Serbia 142 Programme Performance 6 South Sudan 146 Country Coalitions for CMR Clearance 9 Sudan 153 Syria 157 STATES PARTIES Tajikistan 160 Ukraine 163 Afghanistan 12 Vietnam 168 Bosnia and Herzegovina 18 Yemen 175 Chad 28 Chile 32 Croatia 37 OTHER AREAS Germany 44 Kosovo 180 Iraq 51 Nagorno-Karabakh 188 Lao PDR 58 Western Sahara 191 Lebanon 74 Montenegro 86 ANNEX Somalia 93 United Kingdom (Falkland Islands) 102 Annex: Article 4 of the Convention on Cluster Munitions 197 SIGNATORIES Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations 199 Angola 110 Democratic Republic of Congo 114 iv Clearing Cluster Munition Remnants 2019 OVERVIEW OVERVIEW SUMMARY Impressive progress has been achieved in implementing The year 2019 has seen the first requests for extensions the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) since to the treaty clearance deadline. The Ninth Meeting it entered into force on 1 August 2010. Clearance of States Parties has been asked by Germany and Lao operations around the world have destroyed at least PDR to approve a five-year extension to their Article 4 844,000 unexploded submunitions over the course of deadlines of 1 August 2020. While – given the massive the last nine years, saving countless lives and limbs. contamination on its territory – the request by Lao More than 638km2 of valuable land has been returned PDR was both foreseen and justified; the same cannot to communities, enabling resettlement, reconstruction, be said of Germany. This state party, the world’s third and development to occur. In 2018 alone, more than richest nation by nominal gross domestic product 128km2 of cluster munition-contaminated area was (GDP), continues to be a generous donor to mine action released through clearance, with the destruction of worldwide, but has achieved only a small amount of over 135,000 submunitions. This total is the highest clearance since announcing its discovery of cluster ever recorded for a single year’s clearance, bettering munition-contaminated area in 2011. It may even be by nearly 35% the previous high set in 2017 (95km2). the case that it will not complete clearance within the five-year extension, the maximum period allowed under Survey and clearance since 2010 have resulted in eight the CCM for an individual request. This serves as a states parties being removed from the list of those salutary lesson – and important reminder – to other affected by cluster munition remnants1 (CMR): Colombia, states parties not to delay efforts to begin releasing the Republic of Congo, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau, contaminated area, and to start survey and clearance Mauritania, Mozambique, Norway, and Zambia; as well operations as soon as possible, as required by the treaty. as one state not party, Thailand. As a consequence, of the CCM’s 106 states parties today, only 12 remain Croatia and Montenegro also have an Article 4 deadline contaminated. Each has a legally binding obligation of 1 August 2020, but have not submitted an extension under Article 4 of the Convention to clear all CMR from request to the Ninth Meeting of States Parties because territory under its jurisdiction or control as soon as each expects to complete CMR clearance before the possible, but not later than ten years from the date on deadline. If, however, either state fails to complete which it became a state party. CMR clearance by 1 August 2020, and has not had an extension request approved at the Ninth Meeting of This is not to deny the challenges and disappointments States Parties in September 2019, it would be in that the Convention and its adherents have endured.
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