Оттуда виднее, как там с минами
Итак, очередной отчет Международной кампании по запрещению противопехотных мин. Данные исследования "Лендмайнмониторинг" за 2012 год представлены ниже :
Uzbekistan
Mine Ban Treaty / Status: Not joined
Convention on Cluster Munitions / Status: Not joined
Convention on Conventional Weapons / Status: Ratified
Convention on Conventional Weapons / Amended Protocol II: Not signed
Convention on Conventional Weapons / Protocol V: Not signed
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities / Status: Signed
2010 UNGA Resolution 65/48: Abstained
Has never attended a Mine Ban Treaty meeting, including the Tenth Meeting of States Parties in Geneva in November–December 2010 or the intersessional meetings in June 2011
Policy
The Republic of Uzbekistan has not acceded to the Mine Ban Treaty. Uzbekistan has stated that mines are necessary for national security to prevent the flow of narcotics, arms, and insurgent groups across its borders. Uzbekistan did not attend any international meeting on the Mine Ban Treaty during 2010 or the first half of 2011.
Uzbekistan is party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) and its original Protocol II on landmines, but has not joined CCW Amended Protocol II or CCW Protocol V on explosive remnants of war.
Use, production, transfer, and stockpiling
Uzbekistan has stated that it does not produce antipersonnel mines. It is not known to have exported the weapon. It inherited a stockpile of antipersonnel mines from the Soviet Union. The size, composition, and condition of the stockpile are not known. One Ministry of Defense official indicated the stock consisted of OZM-72, PОМZ, and PMN antipersonnel mines, while another said it contains all types of mines that were made in the Soviet Union. The mines are held by both the Ministry of Defense and the Committee on State Border Protection.
Uzbekistan has used antipersonnel mines in the past, including on its borders with Afghanistan in 1998, Kyrgyzstan in 1999, and Tajikistan in 2000.
Letter to the Monitor from Amb. Shavkat Khamrakulov, Embassy of Uzbekistan to the United States, 31 July 2001. Other officials have also made this claim.
Interviews with a Ministry of Defense engineering officer, May 2004, and a Ministry of Defense official, February 2003.
Last Updated: 31 July 2012
Cluster Munition Ban Policy
The Republic of Uzbekistan has not acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Uzbekistan did not participate in the Oslo Process that created the convention and has never attended a meeting on cluster munitions. It has made no public statement on cluster munitions.
Uzbekistan is not party to the Mine Ban Treaty. It is party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW), but has not participated in CCW discussions on cluster munitions.
Uzbekistan is not known to have produced or exported cluster munitions. It inherited a stockpile of cluster munitions from the Soviet Union. Jane’s Information Group reports that KMG-U dispensers that deploy submunitions are in service with the country’s air force. Uzbekistan also possesses Grad 122mm and Uragan 220mm surface-to-surface rockets, but it is not known if these include versions with submunition payloads.
Robert Hewson, ed., Jane’s Air-Launched Weapons, Issue 44 (Surrey, UK: Jane’s Information Group Limited, 2004), p. 848.
International Institute for Strategic Studies, The Military Balance 2011 (London: Routledge, 2011), p. 280.
Last Updated: 02 September 2012
Mine Action
Contamination and Impact
Mines
Uzbek forces have laid mines along its international borders at various times, including on its borders with Afghanistan in 1998, with Kyrgyzstan in 1999, and with Tajikistan in 2000. Soviet troops also laid mines on the Uzbek-Afghan border. Survey on the Tajik side of the border over several years had identified a total of 57 suspect hazardous areas (size unknown) as of December 2008. However, according to information received by Tajikistan from the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan had cleared 95% of minefields along the Tajik border by the end of 2007. Demining operations were said to have been conducted by Uzbek army deminers in cooperation with Tajik border troops.
In 2005, media reports cited Kyrgyz officials in Batken province as saying Kyrgyz border guards had checked previously mined areas of the border around the settlements of Ak-Turpak, Chonkara, and Otukchu, which had been cleared by Uzbek deminers, and confirmed that they were free of contamination. According to the most recent information available (2005), Uzbekistan has no plans to clear mines laid on its 150km border with Afghanistan.
Cluster munition remnants and other explosive remnants of war
It is not known to what extent Uzbekistan is contaminated with explosive remnants of war. In July 2008, an explosion at an army ammunition storage area in Kagan town in Bukhara region killed at least three people and injured 21. There were unconfirmed reports of further casualties. The extent of any residual contamination from the explosion is not known. There is no evidence of any cluster munition remnants threat in Uzbekistan.
Email from Jonmahmad Rajabov, Director, Tajikistan Mine Action Center, 16 February 2009.
See Tajikistan Mine Ban Treaty Article 7 Report, “General situation,” 3 February 2008, p. 3.
“Uzbekistan started demining on Tajik border,” Spy.kz, 23 October 2007, www.spy.kz.
“Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan: Landmine threat along Uzbek border removed,” IRIN, www.irinnews.org.
Information provided to the Monitor by a source in Ministry of Defense, April 2005.
“Some explosions happened at the Rocket-Artillery Ammunition Store of the Military Base of the Ministry of Defense of Uzbekistan,” Rossiyskaya Gazeta (Russian newspaper), 10 July 2008, www.rg.ru.
Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, “A Guide to Ammunition Storage,” Geneva, November 2008, p. 57.
Ну, что тут скажешь...
Ничего нового. Данные, которые просто переписываются из прошлых отчетов. Это трудно назвать исследованием. Человеку, которому доверили подготовить обзор по Узбекистану, было трудно найти сведения, ибо он проживает в Молдавии. Наверное, по мнению экспертов "Мониторинга", оттуда ему виднее...
А как видно, уже можно понять по данному отчету. Отписка... даже стыдно за Кампанию.
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