Laos has unveiled its 10 year plan to implement the Oslo Convention on Cluster Munitions to development partners as part of efforts to mobilise funding to remove unexploded ordnance (UXO).
Assistant Minister of Fore ign Affairs Mr Alounkeo Kittikhoun and Lao delegates presented the plan at the mid-term meeting of States Party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions held from June 27 to 30 in Geneva, Switzerland.
The meeting discussed the progression of state parties in implementing the convention since their first meeting in November 2010 in Vientiane and will prepare a report to be adopted at the second meeting of States Party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which will be held in Lebanon in September.
The meeting is also discussing coordinating mechanisms to monitor and encourage more effective implementation of the convention.
About 400 delegates from 70 member countries, observer nations, international organisations and NGOs are attending the meeting.
Mr Alounkeo is representing Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Thongloun Sisoulith at the meeting.
By Times Reporters
(Latest Update June 30, 2011)
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