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implementation of Amended Protocol II. 67 The Coordinator on the operation
and status of Amended Protocol II, Abderrazzak Laassel (Morocco), informed
the Conference that most of the High Contracting Parties had complied at
least once with their reporting obligations, although a decrease in reporting
was observable in recent years.
The Conference took note of the report by the Coordinator on the
operation and status of Amended Protocol II68 and decided to adopt the
following steps:
• The Group of Experts would continue to review the operation and
status of the Amended Protocol II and consider matters arising from
the national annual reports. It should also consider the development of
technologies to protect civilians against indiscriminate effects of mines;
• The Plan of Action to Promote the Universality of the Convention and
its Protocols was the mechanism to enhance the interest of non-States
parties;
• The High Contracting Parties to the Convention would continue their
contacts with the High Contracting Parties to the original Protocol II
that had not yet become parties to Amended Protocol II. They would
encourage their accession and thus facilitate termination of the original
Protocol II; and
• The Group of Experts would analyse participation in national
annual reporting and study the content of the reports, focusing on the
information submitted in Form B, “Mine clearance and rehabilitation
programmes”.
The Conference also took note of the report69 by the Coordinator on IED,
Reto Wollenmann (Switzerland) and decided to:
• Continue to exchange information on IED, and on IED incidents and
their humanitarian effects and prevention, as well as on the significance
of the CCW framework, its norms and their implementation relating to
the IED threat;
• Continue to survey existing guidelines, best practices and other
recommendations and to compile, for consideration of the High
Contracting Parties, guidelines adding to existing work and aiming at
addressing the diversion or illicit use of materials that can be used for
IED;
Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States.
67 Available from http://www.unog.ch/80256EE600585943/(httpPages)/66F87A925AAEBCF4
C12574830030A9CF?OpenDocument (accessed 2 June 2012).
68 CCW/AP.II/CONF.13/2.
69 CCW/AP.II/CONF.13/3/Rev.1.
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