Mikdad: We Keep on Cooperation with UNMAS for Eliminating Mines and Providing Facilitation

DAMASCUS- Deputy Minister of Foreign and Expatriates Fayssal Mikdad discussed on Tuesday with Director of the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) Agnès Marcaillou issues related to beginning work of UNMAS Office on Syria.

According to SANA, Mikdad stressed importance of starting the operational side of the project of eliminating mines, which cause loss of lives and physical damage among the Syrians in several areas where terrorists planted mines and explosives everywhere they reached to harm as many people as they could.

He stressed that authorities in Syria will keep on cooperating with UNMAS and providing all the required facilitations for starting a feasible action as soon as possible for protecting the Syrian citizens of this danger.

For her part, Marcaillou expressed appreciation for the cooperation shown by Syria since the beginning and explained what UNMAS has done in the framework of preparations for starting work of the Office, on top of which building the Syrian capacity for spreading outreach among the citizens of the dangers of mines and starting training teams for doing that in order to cover the logistic matters.

She pointed out that cooperation and coordination with the Syrian authorities is essential and basic in each and every part and parcel of work and that the UNMAS will provide advice and technical expertise and it will coordinate with the authorities for this project through the Syrian government.

It is worth to mention that the two sides signed an understanding memo in July of the past year.