The Directorate for Mine Action participated in the technical meetings of the working group tasked for preparing the second updated plan for the period  2022-2023 of Ottawa Convention Extension Request in accordance withe Article V, in Erbil.

The Director General of DMA, Eng.Dhafir Mahmood, said that the meeting which was sponsored by IMMAP and attended by representatives from Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defense,  IKMAA and UNMAS, included a presentation about the challenges faced by the work teams in implementing the previous plan and showing the  achievements in the fields of technical survey and demining of the anti-personnel mines and IEDs.

Mahmood added that the purpose of this meeting is to find the approperiate solutions for challenges that face the field teams and improve the results in order to include them in the updated plan according to the governmental capabilities and international support expected during the next two years.