Six provinces including Thbong Khmum, Kampong Cham, Takeo, Kampong Chhnang, Kampot, and Svay Rieng will declare mine free thanks to the Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen’s Project for Mine Action (STP-MA) themed “Providing Safe Ground, Creating smiles”.
The optimism was shared by H.E. Ly Thuch, Senior Minister and First Vice President of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA), at a dissemination meeting on Cambodian mine action sector and STP-MA in Kampong Cham provincial city on Aug. 31.
According to H.E. Senior Minister, a total of 42.51 square kilometres of contaminated land in the six provinces will be cleared in the first phase of STP-MA, with an estimated cost of more than US$5.7 million.
Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen has recently launched a national movement dubbed STP-MA to mobilise resources from donors across Cambodia and beyond to achieve mine-free Cambodia in 2025.
Source: Agency Kampuchea Press