| According to community leaders, approximately 100 children have been killed or injured by landmines and unexploded ordnances in central and southern Somalia in the reporting period. |
| One area where Canada is making a significant contribution is in the efforts to clear the country of mines and unexploded ordnances. |
| The United Nations continues to support the Government of Iraq in its goal to assist Iraq in removing mines and unexploded ordnances by 2018, in accordance with the Ottawa Treaty. |
| Uniform and consistent application of law has been hampered further by the frequent resort to emergency ordnances. |
| The lack of bridges and administrative infrastructures and, in some cases, the presence of mines and unexploded ordnances have halted the process of re-establishing the central State authorities in some places. |
| It was a deadly junkyard full of unexploded ordnances and mines, destroyed aircraft, hangars and gutted buildings. |
