Armed Forces Keep Away Algeria From Paying $10 B to Clear Out French Mines

National People’s Army was able to destroy more than one million mines, since relaunching the operation in November 2004, until December 31, 2015, a process that made it possible to recover 9,447,590 hectares of land that were handed over to local authorities for exploitation.

Ministry of National Defence asserted, in the framework of the strenuous efforts of the National People’s Army in the area of ​​anti-personnel mines combat, as the second phase of clearing out mines, that is implemented by specialized units of the National People’s Army, throughout the period of November 2004 until December,31, 2015 and which is still ongoing, to disarm and destroy a very large number of mines, that reaches up to one million and eighty mines, as this operations also allowed the destruction, since it was resumed in November 2004, the clearing out and handing over a total area of ​9,447,590 hectares to the local authorities.

“These data, that was newly reported, clearly expressed the respect of our country that is well-established towards its international obligations, especially after the ratification of the Ottawa Convention on December 17, 2001, and after it was adopted in December 3, 1997, as it reflected again the National People Army’s determination, despite the difficulty of this task, to eliminate finally this lesion that is inherited from the colonial period, and which is still killing innocents on the eastern and the western border of the country, leaving victims who carry on pain that has no treatment on their bodies.