GHUKASYAN, BRITISH NGO MEMBERS DISCUSS MINE CLEARANCE

Mediamax News Agency, Armenia
Oct 5 2006

Yerevan, 5 October: The president of the Nagornyy Karabakh republic
[NKR], Arkadiy Gukasyan, met representatives of Britain’s Halo
Trust mine clearance non-governmental organization in Stepanakert
[Xankandi] today.

The head of the Nagornyy Karabakh branch the British NGO Halo Trust,
Valon Kumnova, and the representative of the British organization
in the Balkans and in the Caucasus, Matthew Conway, told the NKR
president that about 100 sq.km. of territory have been cleared of
land mines and more than 43,000 projectiles have been defused with
the help of the organization, Mediamax reports.

Gukasyan pointed out that thanks to its high quality work to clear
land mines, Halo Trust has been respected and trusted by the people
of Nagornyy Karabakh for a long time. The NKR president expressed his
gratitude to the representatives of the organization and confirmed
that Stepanakert is ready to make every effort to help implement
their programmes in Nagornyy Karabakh.