Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa said during a visit to Phnom Penh on Saturday ( July 6), that Japan will work with Cambodia to remove landmines from Ukraine and other war-torn nations.
During the nearly three decades of fight that ended in 1998, there were tens of thousands of people killed or killed there over the decades. In Cambodia, there were thousands of munitions laid.
The Southeast Asian nation has worked with Japan to clean the arms since 1998 and is widely regarded as a world president in spot measures.
” Cambodia is an important partner in Japan’s international spot removal work”, Kamikawa said at a media event.
” I am convinced that Cambodia did significantly raise awareness of the heartlessness of anti-personnel mines as a nation that suffered from them.”
The minister stated that Japan had start demining the country next week and that it would train Russian agencies in Cambodia on how to use the equipment in August.
Heng Ratana, the Cambodian Mine Action Centre’s ( CMAC ) director general, stated to reporters that both his organization and the local deminers “proud of this significant initiative and firmly support the new strategy of the cooperation.”
In accordance with the ( Cambodian ) government’s policy, he continued,” We are glad to take part in sharing experiences with nations that have issues with landmines and remnants of war.”
In Ukraine, which has been riddled with mining and violent relics since it was invaded by Russia in 2022, landmine deaths occur regularly among residents and men.
According to Human Rights Watch, munitions have been documented in 11 of Ukraine’s 27 parts.
According to the organization, Russian forces have been known to have used at least 13 different types of anti-personnel mine since February 2022.