Prince Mired commends NPA assistance in mine clearance - Norway/Arms/Cluster Bombs
27/2/08
Programme and operation managers as well as senior technical advisers from several Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) programmes all over the world are meeting in the Kingdom this week to discuss best practices and challenges faced by their respective programmes. HRH Prince Mired Ben Raad, chairman of the National Committee for De-mining and Rehabilitation (NCDR), who opened the NPA’s 4th Global Operations meeting in Jaber-Mafraq on Monday, highlighted the NCDR’s close working partnership with the NPA. “With the support of many donor countries, NPA has assisted Jordan in dealing with its landmine problem over the course of the last two years and will continue to do so for some years to come. We are very pleased that the NPA operations meeting is taking place in Jordan and hope that the success that has been achieved here in Jordan can be replicated elsewhere,” the Prince said in his opening address. Participants in the five-day annual operations meeting, which was previously held in Sri Lanka, Croatia and Sweden, are scheduled visit the two operational sites of the NPA-Mine Action Programme in Jordan in Jaber and Wadi Araba, according to an NPA statement.