Examples of using Unexploded munitions in English and their translations into Russian
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Unexploded munitions were especially difficult to clear.
The same principle should apply to all unexploded munitions.
Any unexploded munitions containing an explosive substance present a humanitarian hazard;
The disadvantage of SN is that the unexploded munitions is still intact.
About 90 million unexploded munitions, mainly land-mines, had to be destroyed on our territory after the Second World War.
Since 1990, 6,800 Colombians have been affected by anti-personnel mines and unexploded munitions.
Over 100 ships laden with fuel and unexploded munitions rest on the bottom of our channels and on land.
Unexploded munitions, lack of electricity, no running water, broken phone lines, ransacked hospitals, and bandits coming through at night, robbing homes.
The army announced this morning that military units are still counting the unexploded munitions left behind by the Israeli army.
It was estimated that some 8,000 unexploded munitions, or 10 per cent of that used by the Israeli Defense Forces, remained in the Gaza Strip.
A follow-up analysis by humanitarian organizations identified several unexploded munitions scattered throughout the territory.
The data on detonations caused by people in areas where armed conflicts had taken place demonstrate that anti-vehicle mines are much less dangerous than conventional unexploded munitions.
Given the largenumbers submunitions thus delivered, proportionately more unexploded munitions remain scattered in the territory under attack.
Since 1993, we have provided more than $1.9 billion in aid in over 80 countries for conventional weapons destruction programmes,including clearance of landmines and unexploded munitions.
Likewise, the frequent use of improvised explosive devices and abandoned unexploded munitions has led to a substantial increase in the number of victims in Colombia.
The UNEP report states that among the ordnance sighted at Ouireej were complete surface-to-surface missile bodies,as well as unexploded munitions and artillery rounds.
However, it was pointed out that under some circumstances,such as where unexploded munitions are salvaged for scrap and explosive, SDA was still an unsatisfactory solution.
In Bangui, the battalion responds to requests from the internal security forces for such activities as securing investigation zones orremoving or destroying unexploded munitions.
First, unexploded munitions must be detonated on the spot; however, the Navy itself admitted that smaller munitions were detonated along with larger bombs, instead of in a detonation chamber.
Background Every year large numbers of civilians are killed and injured by contact with unexploded munitions that no longer serve a military purpose.
Unexploded munitions of that type located underground could impede the safe cultivation of land and the development of infrastructure long after conflicts had ended, as in Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam.
Because of their high level of failure to detonate, it is believed that there are around 500,000- I repeat,500,000- unexploded munitions on the ground in Lebanon.
In addition, comprehensive assistance is provided to the victims of anti-personnel mines, unexploded munitions and improvised explosive devices by the National Disability System and the assistance available locally has been reinforced.
It welcomed the close cooperation between the AfricanUnion observer mission and MINURSO and commended the parties' efforts to remove mines and unexploded munitions and the progress made in humanitarian demining.
On instructions from my Government,I have the honour to inform you that 4,410 unexploded munitions, missiles and mines left behind by the 1991 30-Power aggression against Iraq were found and disposed of in all parts of Iraq between 1 and 31 January 1997.
Unexploded munitions continue to litter the battlefields, and the increasing use of bomblets and other sub-munitions delivered by rockets, artillery and aircraft has exacerbated the problem by increasing the amount of potentially lethal debris left after a conflict.
Protocol V is the first international agreement to require the parties to an armed conflict to clear all unexploded munitions that threaten civilians, peacekeepers and humanitarian workers once the fighting is over.
The presence of a large number of unexploded munitions, including an estimated 1.2 million cluster bombs, 90 per cent of which were apparently fired in the last three days of the conflict, poses a special threat to children by heavily contaminating the destroyed infrastructure, school grounds and agricultural lands.
Of the 500 casualties reported in the 12 months following the end of hostilities in Kosovo, unexploded munitions, submunitions and anti-personnel mines each accounted for roughly the same proportion-- one third-- of the victims.
Despite the limited external assistance it was receiving his Government was using its own meagre resources to expedite the mine-clearing programme. Since 2001, it had cleared over 11,000 mines,almost 70,000 unexploded munitions and almost 55 million square metres of land.