The Directorate for Mine Action held a technical meeting with the delegation of head office of Norwegian People Aids  (NPA) at the headquarters of Directorate in Baghdad.

The Director General of DMA, Eng. Dhafir Mahmood, said that the meeting included discussing the activities of organization in the southern and northern governorates of Iraq which are suffering from  the contamination with anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions, as well as discussing the obstacles of field work and taking the appropriate measures to facilitate it which contribute in increasing the organization’s efforts within its field works.

Mahmood added, “ the meeting also included evaluating the organization’s programs in Iraq through its operational and organizational activities, contribution in national capacity-building and the response extent of its technical programs for the national plans within the Iraqi national mine action program.