Lyn Allison (Victoria, Australian Democrats) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that:

(i)

Israel has not yet provided the United Nations Mine Action Coordination Centre, Southern Lebanon (MACC SL) with maps indicating the locations in Lebanon where cluster munitions were dropped or fired during 2006,

(ii)

according to MACC SL, Israel’s failure to provide these maps has severely hampered and continues to hamper efforts aimed at rendering the land safe for agricultural and other use by removing unexploded sub-munitions,

(iii)

removal of the estimated one million unexploded cluster munitions was expected to be completed by the end of 2007 but, to date, only 14 per cent have been cleared, and

(iv)

the media in Lebanon continue to report injuries and deaths brought about as a result of unexploded sub-munitions that remain from the 2006 war; and

(b)

calls on the Australian Government:

(i)

to urge the Israeli Government to immediately provide MACC SL with maps to assist it in its efforts to remove all unexploded sub-munitions, and

(ii)

to increase Australia’s funding of sub-munition clearance activities being undertaken by MACC SL.

Question negatived.