The 164 signatory countries to the Mine Ban Treaty (MBT) agreed Friday to accelerate the work to achieve the goal of a "mine-free" world in 2025, Norway's foreign ministry said.
"Countries have now agreed that it is necessary to speed up mine clearance over the next five years," Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ine Eriksen Soreide said in a statement following a meeting in Oslo.
According to Landmine Monitor, an annual report by the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, 6,897 people were killed or injured by mines and other explosive remnants of war in 2018 and the report noted that it was the fourth year in a row with "exceptionally high numbers of recorded casualties."
Under the "Oslo Action Plan," adopted on Friday, states undertake to "identify mined areas and put in place national plans for mine clearance."
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