The Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) will continue its support for Cambodia’s mine clearance efforts and the Kingdom’s activities as the Chair of the Ottawa Convention in 2024.

The support was reaffirmed by Mr. Hans Risser, new NPA Country Director in Cambodia, when he paid a courtesy call on Senior Minister H.E. Ly Thuch, First Vice Chairman of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA), in Phnom Penh on Aug. 12.

Mr. Hans Risser also noted the NPA’s continued support for the CMAA capacity building project and thanked the CMAA for its support and close cooperation in the past and future mission of NPA in Cambodia.

For his part, H.E. Ly Thuch extended warm welcome to Mr. Risser and expressed his gratitude to the NPA for its active contribution to demining activities, national capacity building and training of mine detection dogs in Cambodia.

The senior minister commended the NPA’s vision – a Cambodia where landmines, cluster munitions and other explosive remnants of war no longer pose a
risk to people, and are no longer an obstacle to development.

NPA has supported humanitarian mine action in Cambodia since 1992 and has implemented its operations in the cluster munition-affected province of Rattanakiri in the eastern part of the country since 2013.

Cambodia will host the 5th Review Conference of the Mine Ban Convention, the Siem Reap-Angkor Summit for a Mine-Free World, from Nov. 25 to 29 in Siem Reap province,

Source: Agence Kampuchea Presse