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By Our Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI, NOV. 25. Calling on the Government to sign the Ottawa Treaty seeking to ban landmines, concerned citizens today appealed to the Government to make banning of landmines a part of the Indo-Pakistan peace initiative. During a seminar "Beyond Nairobi Summit'' held here, participants attempted to pressurise the government to sign the Treaty before the Review Conference to be held in Nairobi between November 29 and December 3. Organised jointly by the Society for All Round Development and the Indian Institute for Peace Disarmament and Environment Protection, the seminar also saw landmine victims from Punjab, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir, who shared their experiences with the participants. Among them were 14-year old Kirandeep from Rajasthan and a 52-year-old woman from Punjab. Addressing the participants, president of People's Union for Civil Liberties, Rajinder Sachar, stressed on the need of banning the use of landmines in the country and added that pressure should be built on the countries manufacturing and using landmines. Explaining the economics of manufacturing and removing mines, he said that while manufacturing cost of a mine is between 3-4 US dollars, the cost of removing a "mine'' is between 200-300 US dollars. He added that several million mines could be found in various European countries, exposing millions of civilians to these ``deadly'' weapons, which cannot differentiate between a "friend or foe, policeman or common man''. In his inaugural address, IIPDEP president, Balakrishna Kurvey, appealed to the political leadership to make "ban on landmines'' part of the peace initiative of India and Pakistan. He added that the issue of landmines was a major one in border areas as it exposes inhabitants of these areas to the "deadly'' weapon. Also present at the seminar was SARD president, S.C. Goyal and former Ambassador to Egypt, Satnamjit Singh.
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