Kuwait affirms keenness on limiting hazards of certian conventional weapons

GENEVA, Dec 13 (KUNA) -- Kuwait stressed on Tuesday the importance of cooperation at the international and regional levels to prevent the proliferation of conventional weapons.
This came in a speech by the Permanent Representative of Kuwait to the United Nations and international organizations' headquarters in Geneva, Ambassador Jamal Al-Ghunaim to the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons' (CCW) meeting, held on December 12-16.
Al-Ghunaim emphasized the need to restrict the use of specific types of weapons that are considered to cause unnecessary suffering to combatants and affected civilians.
He said that "remnants of war weapons and explosives will continue to threaten civilians indiscriminately after the end of hostilities, not to mention the arms and ammunition that fall into civilian hands." Kuwait started removing the remnants of the Iraqi invasion directly upon the war's end in 1991, said the ambassador, adding that the mines were planted along Kuwait's coast and around its economic bodies and oil facilities.
The United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), ratified in Geneva on October 10, 1980, seeks to prohibit and restrict the use of certain conventional weapons. (end) ta.haq