Acciones tomadas:
Austria remains strongly committed to the goal of a world free from Antipersonnel Mines (APM) by 2025 as well as to continue assistance to APM victims during their lifetimes, even after the aim of a world free of APMs will be achieved. Austria was elected chair of the Ottawa Convention for 2017 and has organized the 16th Meeting of State Parties in Vienna, 18-21 December 2017. The 2017 chairman of the Convention (Amb. Hajnoczi) used all possibilities to promote universalization, which was one decisive factor for Sri Lanka to accede to the Convention.
Closely connected to the goal of a word free of APMs are Austria’s efforts to demining and mine awareness measures in Syria, which look to promote the safe return of international refugees in general as well as the safe return of displaced people outside or within.
Therefore, Austria decided to finance a project in northeast of Syria (mine clearance and mine awareness education) amounting to EUR 2 Mio.
Furthermore, Austria supports mine risk education through the ICRC in Syrian refugee camps located in Jordan and Lebanon as well as victim assistance in 2018 and 2019 with EUR 1 Mio each.
