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Belarus Comes Up 7th in World as to Landmines Reserves 11:30, 23/01/2003
The journalists were told this by the chief of the engineer troops of the military forces of Belarus Sergei Luchina. The arsenal of the Belarusian army now includes 4,5mln landmines. There are also 3,5mln special cassette mines with liquid explosives, whose term of validity expired in 1999.
In the year 2002 the country utilized only 12963 landmines. It is next to impossible to annihilate the remainder of them by blowing, for this can well bring about an ecological disaster. The Defense Ministry is faced with a task to find sponsors, who could earmark means for the mines’ utilization. Special hopes are harbored for the forthcoming January 30 meeting of a special commission in Brussels, which will consider the issue of allocating investments for Belarus for solving this problem.
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