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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - 05.50 GMT |
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China donates
de-mining equipments |
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The Chinese Government has donated a stock of 50 De-mining Detectors and 50 De-mining Protective Equipment worth Rs. 50 million for the use of Army De-miners, now conducting humanitarian de-mining operations in the North.
Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayake, after receipt of the equipment symbolically from Ms Yang Xiuping, Ambassador for People’s Republic of China handed them over to Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya.
The donation is expected to accelerate ongoing Army de-mining operations in the north as resettlement, reconstructions and rehabilitation is fast taking place under ‘Uthuru Wasanthaya’ programme.
Around 1,000 Army de-mining troops have already cleared approximately 200 sq km in the Jaffna, Killinochchi, Mullaitivu and Mannar districts using 29 de-mining equipment by 20th February 2010. A total number of 822 Anti Personnel Mines, an Anti tank mine and 304 unexploded explosive devices had also been removed in the process of de-mining by the mid of February, this year.
The de-mining process has been almost completed in most parts of the Killinochchi district too, enabling around 90,000 IDPs to return to their villages safely.
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