Swiss make four-year commitment to demining

The government is to spend SFr16 million ($17.5 million) annually until 2015 in the fight against landmines, cluster bombs and other explosive remnants of war. 

The announcement from the foreign ministry on the strategy for humanitarian demining comes on the occasion of the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action. 

Meanwhile the Swiss-run International Committee of the Red Cross is calling for increased action to end the suffering caused by mines, cluster munitions and other explosives.

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