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Vikas Swarup

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  1. “We remain willing to share our best practices with Member States and the United Nations with respect to minimizing damage resulting from IED development and proliferation, and stand ready to contribute to capacity-building, victim assistance and victim rehabilitation.”

    2021-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/346 (2021) · source

  2. “We have also undertaken specialist training on counter-IED, bomb disposal and demining operations with numerous partner countries, including Australia, Cambodia, Indonesia and Uzbekistan. Our 12-member team of experts participated in the joint counter-explosive threat task force training exercise Ardent Defender 2019 in Ontario, Canada. Some 130 personnel from 13 African States participated in AFINDEX, a multinational exercise on demining and unexploded ordinance held in India in March 2019. In addition to providing training in demining, India also provided seven demining teams to clear landmines in the northern part of Sri Lanka in 2010, which helped facilitate the return of internally displaced persons to rebuild their lives.”

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  3. “We are pleased to convey that the limb fitment camps, which aim to provide for the physical, economic and social rehabilitation of the affected persons and help them regain their mobility and dignity, have now been extended up to March 2023. In that context, we acknowledge the Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti Jaipur (2007) association, led by Mr. D.R. Mehta, for contributing the Jaipur foot artificial limb for thousands affected by disabilities as a result of conflicts and landmines. India is a leading contributor to United Nations peacekeeping operations and has extended assistance towards international demining and rehabilitation S/2021/346 S/2021/346 efforts.”

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  4. “We believe that the availability of militarily effective alternative technologies that are also cost-effective can help facilitate the goal of complete elimination of APMs. India has enacted the Right of Persons with Disability Act, 2016, which addresses the concerns of persons with disabilities, including landmine survivors. In October 2018, the India for Humanity initiative was launched as a part of Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th anniversary celebrations, with a focus on Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of compassion and service to humanity. Under that initiative, 13 artificial limb fitment camps have been held by India in 12 countries and more than 6,500 artificial limbs have been fitted, mainly in Asia and Africa.”

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  5. “Such usage has only increased; we need to strongly condemn and take effective measures to combat that trend. The countries affected by landmines, particularly those in conflict situations, require assistance. We need to provide assistance without politicizing the issue, since it is the people who suffer from this menace. India is fully committed to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and is a signatory to all five of its Protocols. We attach high priority to the full implementation and universalization of Amended Protocol II, as it strikes the right balance between the humanitarian concerns and legitimate defence requirements of States, particularly those with long borders. We have a moratorium on the export and transfer of landmines and are committed to reducing the dependence on anti- personnel mines (APMs).”

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  6. “General Assembly and Security Council resolutions have recognized the relevance of mine action across the pillars of peace and security, humanitarian issues, human rights and development. India supports the efforts of the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), UNDP and other agencies that have been working in conflict zones across the world. UNMAS’s mine action has remained pivotal to the safety and security of our peacekeepers. It is a matter of deep concern that terrorist groups such as Da’esh, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and the Al-Nusra Front have resorted to landmines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) as low-cost and effective options to spread terror and threaten innocent civilians. We are also witnessing a similar trend in Mali, where peacekeepers have been targeted by IEDs.”

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  7. “At the outset, I would like to congratulate Your Excellency, Mr. Bui Thanh Son, on your appointment as the Foreign Minister of Vietnam. Allow me to also join others in extending best wishes to you and your delegation for a successful presidency of the Security Council for this month. I also wish to express my sincere appreciation to your delegation for organizing today’s open debate on this very important issue. I also thank Secretary-General António Guterres; Mr. Stefano Toscano, Director of the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining; Ms. Michelle Yeoh, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Goodwill Ambassador; and Ms. Nguyen Thi Dieu Linh, Provincial Programme Manager and Manager of project renew, the all-women demining team in Viet Nam, for their briefings.”

    2021-04-08 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/346 (2021) · source