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7th Meeting of the States Parties, Geneva The seven meeting for the states parties in Ottawa Mine ban treaty held in Geneva from 18th to 22nd September 2006. This meeting is the second one after Zagrib Meeting from Nairobi summit. The meeting informed about what achieved from Nairobi action plan until up to now. about (500) persons participated in the meeting representing about (98) states parties and (25) states not parties. Other (271) person participated as observers representing UN agencies, NGOs, ICRC and research & academic institutions. Sudan participated by delegations of officials and NGOs representatives. Mr. Abdelaatie Eid has represented SCBL The meeting discussed during its five days and through the different committees, the status of treaty universalization and implementation. Most of the participated countries submitted their latest reports in mine action. The observers like ICBL , ICRC ,UN agencies and other intervened during the meetings about their views in the treaty progress. The main findings of the committees are: Treaty general status and universilization, the number of states parties reached 151. So the states not parties are 44, three among them are signatories countries. With regard to article 9 national legislation, 48 states indicated that they included the treaty obligation in their national constitutions. Other 25 states indicated that, the treaty obligations already existence in their national legislations. The rest (77 states) did not indicate if their national legislations are enough or need any other amendments. Sudan among the last group. MRE, Mine clearance and technology, many speeches delivered from the states parties and other observer's participants. There are 45 countries have these kinds of project among the states parties. Stockpile destruction, the number of states no longer had stockpile reached 138 states. Items Assistance, the important point that some donors countries restricted their mine action support by a condition that specific percentage should be allocated for VA. The issue of new treaty for the rights of persons with disabilities raised in the meeting. Sudan with Austria will co-chairs for the course of the coming year up to the eighth meeting in Jordan. On behalf of Sudan, Mr Awad Elbashir delivered Sudan statement in the committee of general status and universilization. Gorgkuck Parak represented Sudan by interventions in MRE, Mine Clearance & Technology and stockpile destructions committees. Yousif Mohamed Osman spoke on behalf of Sudan in the committee of VA. The main findings of Sudan speeches are Sudan commitment to the treaty obligations, the formulation of the Sudan Mine Action Authority last year, training of number (about 150) of military personnel in Nairobi in humanitarian mine clearance and Sudan commitment to destroy all its stockpile before the deadline. ICBL organized and in regular basis morning meetings for the NGOs participants. The activities reports of the members shared during the meetings. Many side events organized during the conference time, one of them about the coming treaty for the rights of persons with disabilities. The president of the Ad Hoc committee briefed the meeting about the process of finalizing the draft. The expectation for approving the treaty by the General Assembly before the end of this year. Other meeting devoted for Lebanon problem of cluster pumps created by Israeli army during in the last war between the two countries. |
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February 2000 Sudan CBL organized a strategic planning workshop to develop a three-year plan 2000-2002 .Sudan CBL members decided in the strategy document that they have to seek engagement with NGO partners in SPLAM area and thy mention the name of OSIL as possible partner. The aim was to seek working together in advocacy issues.
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April 2001 LMA visited Sudan and met with Sudan CBL members. the idea of a cross line meeting has been suggested by Sudan CBL and accepted by land mine action UK (LMA) .LMA got funding later from the Diana memorial fund for the initiative support.
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August 2001 Landmine action UK hosted in London a joint meeting between Sudan CBL, OSIL and SIMAS .the groups agreed in working together in principle in mine action and signed MoU.
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September 2002 Sudan CBL ,OSIL and DCA signed a MoU in Geneva for joint cooperation in mine action. the government of Sudan SPLM/A and the UNMAS signed an other MoU for the same purpose. |
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April -November 2002 SLIRI initiative faced so many difficulties and disagreement between the partners on management issues, ownership and indigenous empowerment and cross line confidence building. Sudan CBL and OSIL pulled out. LMA registered in Sudan as as NGO and now struggling to gear the project back to its cross-line nature addressing the very basic issued of Sudanese ownership, capacity building and mine action as peace tool between the partners. |
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March 2002 UNMAS established presence in Khartoum for the first time, a joint assessment in the Nuba Mountains took place in on both sides of the Nuba Mountains .LAM SCBL and OSIL were involved. |
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February 2002 LMA developed a joint project for information gathering on both sides of the conflict in Sudan . The EC funded the project , Oxfam agreed to be the partner with EC and Sudan CBL and OSIL as the local NGO partners. the project called SLIRI (Sudan landmine information and response initiative). |
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February 2003 Mine action coordination meeting took place in Um-sirddiba of the Nuba Mountain representative from the Government of Sudan, SPLA/M, UNMAS ,Sudan CBL and OSIL to discuss coordination issues and future plans .then every three months a cross line management meeting takes place at a neutral zone, either inside Sudan or abroad. |
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