Accord reached on unexploded arms

[Czar]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3247190.stm

greeeeat news

More than 90 countries have approved a treaty designed to clean up unexploded weapons following conflict.
The treaty signed at the United Nations in Geneva gained support of major powers, including the United States.

It is the first time the Bush administration has signed an international arms agreement.

Thousands of civilians are killed by unexploded arms - known as "sleeping weapons" - years after wars have ended, say aid agencies.

Under the treaty, governments have promised to "mark and clear, remove or destroy explosive remnants of war in affected territories under its control".

It includes the controversial cluster bomb which has been used by the US in Afghanistan and Iraq.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: Czar
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3247190.stm

greeeeat news

More than 90 countries have approved a treaty designed to clean up unexploded weapons following conflict.
The treaty signed at the United Nations in Geneva gained support of major powers, including the United States.

It is the first time the Bush administration has signed an international arms agreement.

Thousands of civilians are killed by unexploded arms - known as "sleeping weapons" - years after wars have ended, say aid agencies.

Under the treaty, governments have promised to "mark and clear, remove or destroy explosive remnants of war in affected territories under its control".

It includes the controversial cluster bomb which has been used by the US in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Yes good news. The world is still finding left over ordiance from WWII.

 

[freegeeks]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: Czar
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3247190.stm

greeeeat news

More than 90 countries have approved a treaty designed to clean up unexploded weapons following conflict.
The treaty signed at the United Nations in Geneva gained support of major powers, including the United States.

It is the first time the Bush administration has signed an international arms agreement.

Thousands of civilians are killed by unexploded arms - known as "sleeping weapons" - years after wars have ended, say aid agencies.

Under the treaty, governments have promised to "mark and clear, remove or destroy explosive remnants of war in affected territories under its control".

It includes the controversial cluster bomb which has been used by the US in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Yes good news. The world is still finding left over ordiance from WWII.

we are still digging up WWI munitions !!!!


On the Boezinge canal site war ammunition is or was also brought to the surface by the excavators during the construction of the new road (summers of 1998 and 1999) and the levelling and stabilizing of the ground for the new plants on this industrial estate (2000 and 2001).

Each year DOVO has to show up for about 3500 intervention demands from different places. Each year 300 tons of ammunition are collected to be neutralized or destroyed. Two thirds of these interventions and the amount of ammunition comes from the Westhoek (the area between Ypres and the western end of the Belgian coast), in most cases found by farmers ploughing their fields. And for a part ? but we have no idea how large it is proportionally ? coming from the Boezinge canal site.


link with pics of grenades and other munitions still digged up in Belgium - 300 tons annually