This resolution reaffirms the commitment of the United States to support international humanitarian efforts to eliminate landmines and unexploded ordnance. It also affirms its support to intensify efforts to clear mined areas to the fullest extent possible by 2025.
Finally, the resolution reaffirms the goals of the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action.
[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1025 Introduced in House (IH)]
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117th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. RES. 1025
Recognizing April 4, 2022, as the International Day for Mine Awareness
and Assistance in Mine Action, and reaffirming the leadership of the
United States in eliminating landmines and unexploded ordnance.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 4, 2022
Mr. Johnson of Ohio submitted the following resolution; which was
referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs
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RESOLUTION
Recognizing April 4, 2022, as the International Day for Mine Awareness
and Assistance in Mine Action, and reaffirming the leadership of the
United States in eliminating landmines and unexploded ordnance.
Whereas landmines and unexploded ordnance threaten the safety, health, and lives
of civilian populations and create humanitarian and development
challenges that have serious and lasting social, economic, and security
consequences for affected populations;
Whereas demining and clearance of unexploded ordnance enables displaced people
to return to their homes and has a direct impact on development outcomes
such as food security, school attendance, and economic development;
Whereas people in at least 60 countries and other areas are at risk from mines
and unexploded ordnance in their communities;
Whereas more than 125,000 deaths and injuries resulting from anti-personnel or
anti-vehicle mines and other explosive remnants of war have been
recorded in the Landmine Monitor database since 2001, and thousands more
individuals around the world are killed and injured by such mines and
remnants each year;
Whereas, over the past 3 decades, the United States has been the global leader
in supporting efforts to clear mine-contaminated areas around the world,
dedicating more than $4,000,000,000 for demining and related programs
since 1993 and helping to eliminate more than 90,000 tons of ordnance in
nearly 40 countries;
Whereas, since 1989, the United States Agency for International Development has
allocated more than $324,000,000 through the Leahy War Victims Fund in
more than 50 countries to provide artificial limbs, wheelchairs,
rehabilitation, vocational training, and other assistance to survivors
of accidents caused by landmines and unexploded ordnance;
Whereas landmines contaminate countries in which the United States Armed Forces
have been engaged in combat or stabilization operations, including Iraq,
Syria, Kosovo, and Somalia, posing a significant risk to United States
military personnel;
Whereas the United States Government expressed its support for the Maputo +15
declaration of June 27, 2014, which established the goal ``to destroy
all stockpiled anti-personnel mines and clear all mined areas as soon as
possible,'' and ``to the fullest extent possible by 2025'';
Whereas there are 164 States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the
Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on
their Destruction, done at Oslo September 18, 1997, although the United
States is not yet among them;
Whereas the recent use of landmines, cluster bombs, and other munitions,
particularly in the Middle East, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, has created
new humanitarian priorities and funding requirements for demining, while
legacy mine contamination remains an urgent challenge impacting millions
of people globally;
Whereas additional resources for demining will be needed to achieve a world free
of the threat of landmines and other explosive hazards; and
Whereas, on December 8, 2005, the United Nations General Assembly declared that
April 4th of each year shall be observed as the International Day for
Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
(1) reaffirms the commitment of the United States to
support international humanitarian efforts to eliminate
landmines and unexploded ordnance;
(2) recognizes those individuals in numerous countries who,
at great risk to their personal safety, work to locate and
remove anti-personnel landmines and unexploded ordnance;
(3) affirms its support for the goal, as expressed by the
Maputo +15 declaration of June 27, 2014, to intensify efforts
to clear mined areas to the fullest extent possible by 2025;
(4) calls upon the United States Government--
(A) to continue providing the funding necessary to
support international humanitarian demining activities;
(B) to maintain its international leadership role
in seeking to rid the world of areas contaminated by
landmines and unexploded ordnance; and
(C) to rededicate itself to addressing legacy mine
contamination as an urgent humanitarian priority; and
(5) reaffirms the goals of the International Day for Mine
Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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