The Directorate for Mine Action held a technical meeting with the Country Director of Handicap International and his accompanying delegation at the headquarters of directorate in Baghdad.

The Director General of DMA,Eng. Dhafir Mahmood, said that the meeting included a technical presentation on the activities and works of organization and its capabilities in using drones in conducting the survey in the contaminated areas with mines and explosive remnants of war, as well as the capability to use the modern techniques for analyzing the data resulting from the surveys by those drones.

Mahmood added that the meeting also included discussing issues regarding victim assistance and how to provide the services to mine and ERW victims, in addition to discussing the preparations for the training course that will hold by DMA for its technical staff in cooperation with HI to use Drones in survey works within the activities of the Iraqi national mine action program.