LMAC News

On 10 December 2018, Brigadier General Ziad Nasr, LMAC Director, welcomed H.E. Mrs. Lene Lind, Norwegian Ambassdor to Lebanon, and other representatives from Embassies and NGOs to explain the current situation in the North. During the meeting, LMAC Head of Operations Section  conducted a presentation about “North East Region”; he gave a brief about:          

• History of the area
• Impact on the community
• Project preparation
• Challenges
• Conclusion

After that, a presentation was held by MAG and NPA about Improvised Landmines:

• Background of the project
• Training and Development
• Current capacity (Field Operations and Operations Support)
• Community Impact

Mr. Fadi Abilmona insisted on the coordination between UNDP and UNHCR projects and many other agencies like FAO in the area in order to do livelihood projects in case you need any support or consultancy.

H.E. Mrs. Lind said that donors need to know the deadlines; they don’t have an integrated overview about what we need. Also she said that the newly furnished Regional Office in Ras Baalbeck was something very important, and all the funds for the South must be secured to its activities while we must be searching for additional funds for the North.

Head of MRE and IM Sections said that he is planning to do a media center in the LMAC and the ambassador welcomed the idea.

On the commemoration of the International Day of of persons with Disabilities, under the patronage of Mrs. Randa Berri Lebanon Mine Action Center (LMAC) in the cooperation with the National Steering Committee orgnized the Second Annual meeting for mine victims in the Lebanese Parliament to ensure the rights of people with disabilities and to comply with the National Law 220/2000.

The meeting was attended by a number of Ministers, Deputies, LMAC Officers, Ambassadors of International countries, organizations of the United Nations, representatives of the National Security Council, and associations concerned with assisting persons with special needs, members of the National Steering Committee and a number of mines, cluster and unexploded ordnance victims. The meeting included the following activities:

- Lebanese National Anthem.

- Speech of the National Steering Committee, delivered by Ms. Randa Assi Berri, President of the Lebanese Association for the Care of Disabled Persons.

- Speech of Brigadier General Ziad Nasr, Director of LMAC.

- Speech of Mr. Ray Milan, EU Representative.

- Speech of Mrs. Celine Moyroud, UNDP Representative

- Interventions from Mine Victims and H.E. Minister of Social Affairs, Mr. Pierre Bou Assi

- At the end of the meeting, Dr. Michel Moussa, announced the recommendations which included

Between 2 and 4 December 2018, Lebanon Mine Action Center (LMAC) in the cooperation with Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) and the National Committee for Demining and Rehabilitation(NCDR) are organizing a Regional Workshop 'Ammunition Safety and Security Management" in Amman, Jodran. Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Palestine, Somalia and Sudan are the countries who participated in the workshop.

Brigadier General Ziad Nasr, Director of Lebanon Mine Action Center, accompanied with MVA Head of Section and UNDP Mine Action Advisor are participating in the Seventeenth Meeting of the States Parties (17MSP) in Geneva from 26 till 30 November 2018.