PHNOM PENH May 22 Kyodo Cambodia ...

PHNOM PENH May 22 Kyodo

Cambodia will send out demining experts to Afghanistan nearest month to offer that nation advice and share experiences, a senior control official said Wednesday.

Sam Sotha, adviser to Prime Minister Hun Sen and secretary general of Cambodian Mine Action and Victims Assistance Authority, told Kyodo just discovereds he would lead a three-member team to Afghanistan in June

At the entreaty of the United Nations, Sam Sotha said, he would make presentations forward Cambodia's demining experiences during his team's seven-day stay in Afghanistan.

Cambodia sent 16 deminers to Kosovo in 1999

An estimated 10 million land mines remain buried in Afghanistan despite demining efforts, with an average of about 88 mine and unexploded-ordinance casualties by month recorded in 2000, according to a nongovernmental organization's survey

It is estimated that four to six million land mines have been planted in Cambodia since 1967

Since 1992 the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC), a sway organization that depends on foreign donations for greatest in quantity of its funding, has cleared about 95 square kilometers of mine fields.

The demining center bestows about $10 million a year to support work done on its 2,866 staff.

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