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OAS Program for Comprehensive Action against Anti-Personnel Mines to Participate in Event on Canadian Support to Colombia

  March 18, 2013

The Organization of American States, through its Program for Comprehensive Action against Anti-Personnel Mines (AICMA), will participate on Wednesday, March 20 in the forum “Canadian Diplomacy for Peace and Security in Colombia,” in which the Canadian diplomatic mission will discuss its efforts made during the last seven years in the South American country through the Global Peace and Security Fund (GPSF).

Carl Case, AICMA General Coordinator, will represent the General Secretariat of the OAS at the event, which will take place in the Muse del Chico, in Bogotá, Colombia. AICMA channels a significant part of the financial efforts of GPSF in the country to provide technical, logistical, and administrative assistance for humanitarian de-mining, the destruction of munitions, education on risks, and assistance to mine victims in Colombia since 2003.

By 2012, more than 3 million square meters in Colombia had been cleared of mines; educational campaigns reached more than 2,418 families; in assistance to victims, 294 survivors of mine accidents in Antioquia, Arauca, Bolívar, Boyacá, Caldas, Caquetá, Cundinamarca, Choco, Meta, Nariño, Norte de Santander, Santander, and Valle de Cauca had been socioeconomically reintegrated.

WHAT: Forum “Canadian Diplomacy for Peace and Security in Colombia”

WHEN: Wednesday, March 20, 2013, 18:00 local time (23:00 GMT)

WHERE: Museo del Chico-Salón La Casona
Bogotá, Colombia

Reference: AVI-083/13