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consultations, including those of, inter alia: (a) the Standing Committees (held
in Geneva from 20 to 24 June), which dealt with intersessional work for 2011;
(b) the Coordinating Committee; (3) the informal open-ended working group,
mandated to examine new models for the financing of the Implementation
Support Unit (ISU) and to present recommendations on the most feasible
comprehensive financing model; 95 (d) the mechanism established to analyse
requests under article 5 for extensions of the mine clearance deadlines;
and (e) the States parties, observer States and interested international
organizations, which convened the traditional one-day preparatory informal
meeting. 96
The following aspects were particularly noteworthy in relation to the
2011 Intersessional Work Programme:
• The establishment of the new Standing Committee on Resources,
Cooperation and Assistance (presided in 2011 by the President of the
Tenth Meeting of the States Parties), which aimed at building upon the
progress made during the special session in June 2010 on international
cooperation and assistance, and during the Tenth Meeting of the States
Parties;
• The experiment with the new ways of using the Intersessional Work
Programme to more intensively focus on national contexts or otherwise
to creatively support progress in the application of the Cartagena Action
Plan, 97 and to ensure ongoing effectiveness of the Intersessional Work
Programme (in particular, three of the Standing Committees convened
concurrent small group discussions on mine clearance in Cambodia and
Mozambique, on victim assistance in Afghanistan and Uganda, and on
national implementation legislation); and
• The use of landmines in South Sudan and Libya, which was repeatedly
mentioned as an issue of particular concern during the week of Standing
Committee meetings on the intersessional work.
The Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Albania and
President of the Tenth Meeting of the States Parties, Gazmend Turdiu, opened
the Eleventh Meeting. His Majesty Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia, 98
the United Nations Secretary-General 99 and the President of the International
Committee of the Red Cross delivered messages at the opening meeting.
95 Established pursuant to the decision contained in APLC/MSP.10/2010/7, para. 24.
96 The informal meeting was held on 5 September 2011.
97 Available from http://www.cartagenasummit.org/fileadmin/pdf/review-conference-2nd/
2RC-ActionPlanFINAL-UNOFFICIAL-11Dec2009.pdf (accessed 2 June 2012).
98 Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia, message to the Eleventh Meeting of the States
Parties to the Mine Ban Convention, Phnom Penh, 28 November. Available from
http://www.cambodia11msp.gov.kh/pdf/Royal%20Message_EN.pdf (accessed 2 June 2012).
99 Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General, message to the Eleventh Meeting of the
States Parties to the Mine Ban Convention, Phnom Penh, 28 November. Available from