Foreign NGOs join hands to help Quang Binh clear UXO

Three foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are carrying out projects in Quang Binh to help the central province, which is heavily polluted with unexploded ordnance (UXO), detect and clear cluster munitions and other explosives from now to 2022.
Foreign NGOs join hands to help Quang Binh clear UXO ảnh 1Quang Binh officials and representatives of the NGOs at the workshop introducing the projects on July 7 (Photo: VNA)

Quang Binh (VNA) – Three foreign non-governmentalorganisations (NGOs) are carrying out projects in Quang Binh to help thecentral province, which is heavily polluted with unexploded ordnance (UXO),detect and clear cluster munitions and other explosives from now to 2022.

The projects were introduced at a workshop heldin Quang Binh on July 7.

Under cooperation deals with the provincialPeople’s Committee, the Norwegian People’s Aid of Norway will implement acluster munitions survey project and another on establishing and assisting adatabase unit and coordinating the settlement of UXO consequences in QuangBinh.

Meanwhile, PeaceTrees Vietnam, an NGO of the US,is going to carry out a project on searching for and disposing UXO, and theUK’s Mines Advisory Group will go on with its UXO detection and clearanceproject in the province.

The activities will be funded with 5.5 millionUSD by the US State Department’s Office of Weapons Removal and Abatementbetween 2020 and 2022. Besides, the Japanese Embassy’s funding for the MinesAdvisory Group project will last through March 2021, and funding extension tofollowing years will be considered.

Besides UXO clearing, these projects will assistthe province in setting up, developing and running a database management systemand a mine action coordination system, thus helping with the collection,settlement, storage and analysis of data to serve the making of decisionsrelated to mine actions at the provincial and national levels.

Additionally, local authorities and communities willbe updated with UXO-related information in a timely manner, and publicawareness of relevant risks is hoped to be improved thanks to the projects.

According to statistics released in 2009 by theDefence Ministry’s Technology Centre for Bomb and Mine Disposal and the VietnamVeterans of America Foundation, nearly 225,000ha of land across all communes,wards and townships in Quang Binh was contaminated with UXO, accounting for27.9 percent of the province’s area. 

In particular, UXO polluted 96.9 percent ofresidential land, 95 percent of agricultural land, and 84.3 percent of landunder perennial trees./.
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