Jordan Times
Tuesday, September 7, 1999
Army destroys over 4,500 anti-personnel mines
AMMAN (R) — Jordan's Armed Forces destroyed 4,552 anti-personnel mines on Monday out of their stock of war supplies in line with the Ottawa Convention which aims to eliminate landmines.
Brigadier General Fayez Dwairi told reporters Jordan was determined to destroy its entire stock of 92,420 mines over the next four years and to remove all 303,016 anti-personnel and anti-tank mines planted along its borders with Israel and Syria.
Sappers had so far dug up around 80,000 mines from an area near the border with Israel as part of a three-phased demining process, Dwairi said.
Jordan signed last year the Ottawa Convention which bans the use, storage, production and transfer of anti-personnel mines and requires their destruction.
Dwairi said Jordan was going beyond the convention and would eliminate all types of mines.