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Quang Tri strives to be safe from UXO by 2025

A seminar was held in the central province of Quang Tri on June 14 to review activities to clear unexploded ordnances (UXO) left over by the war for the 2016 – 2020 period.
Quang Tri strives to be safe from UXO by 2025 ảnh 1Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)
Quang Tri (VNA) – A seminar was held in the centralprovince of Quang Tri on June 14 to review activities to clear unexplodedordnances (UXO) left over by the war for the 2016 – 2020 period.

During the period, the province built and operated a MineAction Centre and updated database for the effort.

As many as 733 employees in foreign non-governmentalorganisations (NGOs) and 143 local workers have received certificates for UXOclearance.

The effort was incorporated into local socio-economicdevelopment plan. Meanwhile, foreign NGOs funded 7.6 billion USD for itsactivities.

As of late May, humanitarian UXO clearance projects worthnearly 9 million USD were launched.

Since 2016, foreign NGOs have deactivated UXO on more than5,500ha, or 157 percent of the plan, launched 62 development projects andoffered support to over 600 victims and their families.

Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Hoang Namasked units concerned to work closely with authorities to push up the work,towards turning Quang Tri into one of the first localities nationwide safe fromUXO by 2025.

Quang Tri is one of the most heavily contaminated localitieswith UXO in the country as it is the frontier of the sides during the war.-VNA
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