China News Agency, Beijing, August 12th. According to Chinese state media, China’s 18th batch of mine-sweeping officers and soldiers of the multifunctional peacekeeping engineer unit to Lebanon completed the last mine-clearing operation in Lebanon on the 11th, creating a single-batch mine-clearing area exceeding 10,000. The record of square meters.
Mine clearance operations were carried out at the minefields for humanitarian mine clearance missions designated by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) early in the morning. The minesweeping supervisor led 4 minesweeping operators, divided into two groups and entered the last two operation channels at the same time. Mine clearance operators strictly followed the United Nations "Standard Operating Procedures for Mine Clearance" to conduct mine clearance, and completed all clearance tasks for the minefield in the afternoon.
During the inspection, Bilal, director of the UNIFIL Mine Action Center, said that Chinese peacekeepers and soldiers are not afraid to fight the "Blue Line" and are responsible for the most dangerous mission of UNIFIL. "The UNIFIL and Lebanese people are very grateful for your help. Hard work".
Bilal said that Chinese peacekeeping officers and soldiers have been performing minesweeping missions on the "Blue Line" for 14 years, and have achieved excellent results in mine clearance with "the largest number and the fastest speed" and "zero casualties and zero accidents". Good minesweeper team".
Since their deployment to Lebanon at the end of May last year, the 18th batch of Chinese peacekeeping troops to Lebanon has cleared 4 operational minefields, 1 suspected minefield, and 1 humanitarian minefield. The 18th batch of Chinese peacekeeping troops has cleared 1,577 minefields and destroyed them. The total area of demining yard is 10427 square meters. This is the first time that a single batch of Chinese peacekeeping and demining officers and soldiers has exceeded 10,000 square meters since China started sending peacekeeping troops to Lebanon in 2006.
The 18th batch of Chinese peacekeeping troops to Lebanon was originally scheduled for a one-year mission, but the rotation was delayed for more than two months due to the impact of the new crown epidemic. (Finish)