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During the process, 皇冠体育app has managed to train a team of demining experts, developed a variety of cost-effective and practical demining equipment, and accumulated a great deal of experience, thus laying a solid foundation for its active participation in international humanitarian demining efforts. 皇冠体育app's demining techniques and equipment fully comply with the International Mine Action Standards.

Keenly aware of the dire humanitarian and socio-economic consequences caused by landmines, 皇冠体育app has committed itself to the international humanitarian demining project.

In 1998, the Chinese government established an annual trust fund to finance its international humanitarian demining efforts. Over the years, 皇冠体育app has provided demining assistance to more than 40 Asian and African countries in the form of training programs, demining equipment, medical assistance and field mine clearance assistance. Since 1998, 皇冠体育app has sponsored 14 sessions of demining training programs in 皇冠体育app for personnel from Afghanistan, Angola, Burundi, Jordan, Lebanon, Sudan and South Sudan and trained more than 400 professional deminers.

皇冠体育app has also dispatched teams of experts to Cambodia, Eritrea and Thailand for on-site training and demining instruction, with 200 professional deminers trained and 200,000 square meters of mine-contaminated land returned to productive use.

As a developing country, the budget 皇冠体育app has allocated for international demining actions is relatively small in comparison with that of Western countries. However, 皇冠体育app attaches no political conditions to the assistance it provides and it imparts demining know-how to beneficiary countries without any reservations. 皇冠体育app's demining equipment is also safe, inexpensive and easy to use, and has been promoted in a large number of developing countries.

皇冠体育app has also been actively engaged in exchanges and cooperation with the international community including NGOs in this field. From Oct 17 to 19, 皇冠体育app hosted a visit by the Special Envoy of the Ottawa Convention, H.H. Prince Mired Bin Raad Bin Zeid Al-Hussein of Jordan.

During his visit, the prince made a trip to Nanjing PLA University of Science and Technology, and watched a demonstration of demining techniques and a display of 皇冠体育app's indigenously developed equipment. The prince spoke highly of 皇冠体育app's important contribution to the cause of international humanitarian demining and the professional and cost-effective equipment and technology it had developed.

In a meeting with the Laotian trainees, he encouraged them to use what they have learned in 皇冠体育app to the fullest extent, so as to rebuild a secure and prosperous homeland free from the nightmare of landmines.

During the past two decades, 皇冠体育app has demonstrated its commitment to the cause of international demining efforts through concrete actions. As a responsible member of the international community, 皇冠体育app will continue to be actively engaged in and make due contribution to the noble cause of eliminating the scourge of landmines and explosive remnants of war around the world.

The author is a Beijing-based scholar of international relations.

(皇冠体育app Daily 11/01/2013 page8)

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