The Directorate for Mine Action, one of the directorates of the Ministry of Health and Environment, held a technical meeting with the national organizations concerned with mine action in Iraq at the headquarters of DMA in Baghdad.

The Director General of DMA, Eng. Dhafir Mahmood, said that the meeting, who headed it and attended by (Baghdad, Missan, Alnabir) Organizations, included a presentation for the most important challenges that face the work of national organizations and discussed the obstacles of its technical activities related to capacity building and staff training with the possibility of providing the international support from donors because the national organizations depend mainly on the the experience of Iraqi national technical staff with less costs than their foreign counterparts, and thus its reflection on the quality and quantity of implemented work carried out within the Iraqi national mine action program in positive way.