Senior Minister Ly Thuch, First Vice President of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) and President of the Ottawa Convention 2024, has received different foreign delegations attending the Siem Reap-Angkor Summit on a Mine-Free World.
The delegations include those from Norway, Tonga, Thailand, Tajikistan, Cyprus, Ukraine, The Halo Trust, and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).
They thanked Cambodia for its warm hospitality and praised the country for organising the Siem Reap-Angkor Summit well. They also spoke highly of the Kingdom’s success in mine and UXO clearance, becoming a model and leading country in contributing to global mine action.
Ly Thuch thanked the delegations for participating in the Siem Reap-Angkor Summit, which reflected their commitment and contribution to realising the common goal of the Ottawa Convention.
Cambodia is hosting the Fifth Review Conference of the Mine Ban Treaty, known as the Siem Reap-Angkor Summit on a Mine-Free World in Siem Reap province from Nov. 25 to 29, 2024.
According to a report, with the unwavering support of the international community, from 1992 to date, Cambodia has cleared over 3,000 square kilometres of landmines, destroying over 1 million anti-personnel mines and 3 million explosive remnants of war, therefore casualties have plummeted from an average of over 4,300 per year in 1996 to fewer than 100 annually in the past ten years.AKP
