CAMBODIA

Universalization of the Ban on Anti-personal Mines-prospects

PRESENTED BY

LT.COL. MAM NEANG DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF EXPLOSIVE REMNANTS OF WAR

APRIL 2008

Acronyms

1. CMAA: Cambodian Mine Action Authority2.CMAC: Cambodian Mine Action Center 3. RCAF: Royal Cambodian Armed Forces4. MAG: Mine Advisory Group5. TMCC: Training Mine-UXO Clearance

Center6. ERW: Explosive Remnants of War 7. EOD: Explosive Ordnance Disposal8. UXO: Unexploded Ordnance9. SOP: Standard Operation Procedures

CAMBODIA AT A NEW ERA• Geography

– Area: 181,035 sq Km– Land boundaries: Laos: 541Km

Thailand:

803 Km Vietnam:

1228 Km

• Population 13,607,069 (July 2005 est.)– Ethnic groups: Khmer 90%, Vietnamese

5%,Chinese 1%, other 4%– Religion: Buddhism 95% and other 5%

• Government– Type: Multiparty democracy under a

constitutional monarchy– Capital: Phnom Penh– Independence from French in November 1953– Administrative divisions: 20 provinces and 4

Municipalities

• Military: Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (Army, Navy and Air Force)

• Member State: 14 December 1955

Samdach Aka Moha Sena Padei Techo HUN SEN, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia and President of Cambodian Mine Action Authority

NATIONAL MINE ACTION PROGRAM

ADVISORY BOARD

SECRETARIAT(CMAA)

CMAC RCAF

MAG HALO TRUST

Role of

The Cambodian Mine

Action Authority

(CMAA)

The CMAA is the sole institution to represent the RGC in mine action, as follows:

• Developing policy guidelines for mine clearance• Coordinating of all mine action activities and programs• Developing mine action strategies• Monitoring mine action operations• Regulating all program activities• Being the focal point for information with its national database• Being the focal point for Mine Risk Education• Developing policy to manage post clearance and land use• Mobilizing resources• Ensuring obligations under national and international mine

action laws, treaties and conventions

CMAA TASKS

National Mine Action Strategies

• Assumption

- Decreasing Threats

- Sustainable Efforts

- Full Government Involvement

• Vision

- Medium: Toward Zero Victim - Demining of High Risk Areas

and Intensive Mine Risk Education

- Long Term: Socio-Economic Impact – Sustainable National Capacity

• Broad Strategic Priorities- National Coordination

- Humanitarian Purposes

- Development Sustainability

- Compliance with International Requirements

Long Term Strategy

Cambodia

Clearance Achievements

Achievement• 1992-2007

• Destroyed:– APMs 732,493

(PMN,PMN2,PMD6,MN79,Type69, DH10, MON 66/50, POMZ2M, 72A, 72B and Gyata64)

– ATMs 18,153– UXO 1,588,057– Total area cleared: 407,126,372 m2

Level One Survey (L1S) Results

- 13,908 villages surveyed

- 3,000 suspected mined areas,

including 300 with cluster bombs

- 11,400 UXO spots

- 4466 sqkm2 of suspected mined areas

Mine and UXO Problems

Assumption : only 10% of the areas are practically impacted

- Severe impact areas: 122 sqkm2

- High impact areas: 180 sqkm2

- Medium impact areas: 103 sqkm2

- Low impact areas: 19 sqkm2

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Total Areas to be Cleared : 424 sqkm2

Mine and UXO Problems

ROYAL CAMBODIAN ARMED FORCES

BECAME AN ACTIVE ROLE IN MINE

CLEARANCE PROJECT SINCE 1993

The leaders of Royal Government of Cambodia attended a Departure and Welcoming home Ceremony of the

Cambodian humanitarian de-mining unit for the UN

Peacekeeping Operation

Role and Duty of Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF)

• RCAF represented by Training and Mine Clearance Center with her mission is executing the Ottawa Convention on Mine Clearance in and outside the country

• Joined hand in rehabilitation and development nation society with Mine Clearance Project based on road construction, bridge, farm land and development land

• Humanitarian Mine Clearance on behalf of UN Peacekeeping Operations.

RCAF

RCAF Manpower on Mine Action Program

• Center strength: 1,536

• De-mining: 1,198

• Instructors and Personnel: 171

• Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD): 144(24 teams)

• IED: 23

Training Activity of the Cambodian De-mining Unit before deploying to the local and international missions

The Rehearsal Exercise of Cambodian De-mining Unit for the UN Peacekeeping Operation

The specialized training activity of the Cambodian De-mining Unit following a UN Standard Operation Procedure

Achievement of cleared areas yearly from (1993-

2007)

12125737

1897247216538990

1303447

20011000

24348664

364683

2576148

1674000

49725003040000

2432000

6482357

17118994

13129136

9744500

0

5,000,000

10,000,000

15,000,000

20,000,000

25,000,000

30,000,000

Cleared Lands

Mine and ERW were discovered by RCAF mine clearance unit

Mine-UXO and demolition activity

National Level • Following a strategy on national mine action policy

with 5years variable (2006-2010) of CMAA• Clearly setting up and sharing a responsibility for

CMAA on CMAC, Training & Mine UXO Clearance Center and National Police for:

• the year 2006 to 2010• the year 2010 to 2015• and after year 2015

• TWA-MA continues to facilitating goal for the Training & Mine UXO Clearance Center (representing RCAF)

Functional Level • Reunifying with agreeable on one direct

supervision

• Reunifying to one stop policy

• Training & Mine UXO Clearance Center has a perfect role and duty as a main centralized force of RCAF in transferring training school to become a national institution with laboratory, library, museum and chemical theme

Operational Level • Training & Mine UXO Clearance Center should strongly gear

forward in strengthening and expanding their variety of experts and:

• following CMAS and IMAS Standards• Reducing a level of bureaucracy• Preparing Management Chart according to Flat Organization• Setting up education schedule with long, medium and short

terms with continuing focus further on fresh training• Revising ineffective goals by applying to a new technical field

training with modern equipment and materials for the mine clearance more accountable

• furnishing deep search mine detectors for one company• Managing and good governing on 3 important assets:

TMCC Allocation• Manpower (officer and subordinate officer's

instructors and military experts)• Asset and equipment for mine clearance purpose• Government fund and donor fund/bidding

• Caring and using more effectively on explosive storage and ammunition stockpile warehouse before destroying

• Strictly executing more effective about law on AP Ban Treaty Stockpile Destruction Agreement

• Putting together a policy about de-mining retirement plan

THANK YOU

FOR YOUR ATTENTION