On Tuesday, the Director General of DMA, Eng.Dhafir Mahmood Khalaf, met, in his office, the Director of the United Nations Mine Action Service, Mr.Pehr Laudhamnar, and discussed with him the mechanisms of international support provided for the various activities of mine action.

 From his part, the spokesperson of DMA stated that the meeting discussed the general international reasons and the impact of all this on the decline in the flow of financial grants to the national mine action program, which requires for another effort at the official level with the aim of strengthening the governmental financial funding to support various  projects of mine action.

 It is noteworthy that mine action projects depend on the international support provided by donor countries with a large extent, in addition to the work of the national effort carried out by the Ministries of Defense and Interior in the various works of clearance and demining.