ICBL Landmine Monitor Global Meeting, 3-5 May 2004

     Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Sarajevo meeting will mark the first time that the ICBL has held a global meeting in a mine-affected country of Europe and the first time it has held a major event in one.  The ICBL has previously brought its global network of campaigners, researchers, deminers, and mine victims together in the mine-affected countries of Cambodia, Mozambique, Nicaragua and elsewhere in Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Norway, and United States. 

This global meeting is necessary for the ICBL to prepare Landmine Monitor Report 2004, the sixth report of the initiative.  It also represents the last opportunity for our members to strategize ahead of the 2004 Review Conference of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. 

The Sarajevo  meeting will follow a series of regional ICBL meetings held between November 2003 and April 2004 in two non-States Parties and three heavily mine-affected countries:  Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), Sharjah (UAE), Bogotá (Colombia), Bujumbura (Burundi), and Kabul (Afghanistan).  The global meeting will bring together Landmine Monitor researchers for peer review, feedback and questioning on the final country updates for the annual report.