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 | | While the short-term emergency focus was shifting the UXO out of harm's way, and clearing specific routes and areas, the long-term focus would be the "extensive minefields" that had been laid, he said. |
 | | Ben Lark, the deputy global landmines coordinator with the United Nations Children's Fund, told IRIN in the Jordanian capital, Amman, that no reliable and specific information was available on the Iraqi situation, except for the three semi-autonomous northern governorates of Dahuk, Arbil and As-Sulaymaniyah. |
 | | The Iran-Iraq border had been heavily mined during the 1980-88 war, as well as areas in the south during the 1991 Gulf war, and areas along the borders with Saudi Arabia, Jordan and possibly Syria, he said. |
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