» 18-01-2012 Wherever they are laid, landmines kill and maim people who inadvertently stumble upon them. When people know that mines are present, they abandon fields and roads, even when those are vital to local livelihoods.
» 04-11-2010 The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Defense, in collaboration with the Albanian Mine Action Executive (AMAE) through UNDP Albania, organized the national workshop on landmine and unexploded ordinance survivor assistance in Albania. Participants in the seminar included high level representatives from government, landmine/ unexploded ordinance survivors, representatives from local and national health institutions, donor governments as well as local and international nongovernmental institutions who have contributed to the mine unexploded ordinance survivor assistance in Albania since the event of the Kosovo conflict in 1999.
» 19-10-2010 Representatives from mine-affected countries in South Eastern Europe including landmine and unexploded ordnance survivors, donors, international and non-governmental organizations got together in Tirana at a seminar to discuss a mine free South Eastern Europe.
» 15-07-2010 The Ministry of Interior and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Albania, in cooperation with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), launched the National Policy Dialogue on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).
» 29-01-2010 Albania has been declared as official mine-free, following the hand over of the last mine-affected areas of land to the people of Borja Village, who reside on Albania’s northern frontier with Kosovo in the Region of Kukes.
» 01-01-1970 TIRANA 4 April 2007 – The Albanian Government and the United Nations in Albania observed the UN International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action to raise awareness of landmines and progress towards their eradication in the country.
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