1. This section draws heavily on the Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross to the First Meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the 2001 Review Conference of the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, UN Doc. CCW/CONF.II/PC.1/WP.1, 11 December 2000.
2. The phrase ‘explosive remnants of war’ has not been defined but it is generally understood to be synonymous with ‘unexploded ordnance’. Under the International Mine Action Standards (IMAS) published by the United Nations Mine Action Service, unexploded ordnance is ‘explosive ordnance that has been primed, fused, armed or otherwise prepared for use or used. It may have been fired, dropped, launched or projected yet remains unexploded either through malfunction or design or any other reason’. IMAS, 04.10, 1st edn. 2001, at p. 26.
3. Landmine Action, ‘Explosive Remnants of War: The Global Problem’, Paper presented to the Group of Governmental Experts to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, December 2002.
4. ‘Greek experts defuse bomb from Second World War at future Olympic site’. <
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>; ‘British wartime bomb is defused as city holds its breath’, ; ‘Teen killed by World War I Bomb’, .
5. Engineering Forces of the Polish Armed Forces, ‘Polish Experiences with Explosive Remnants of War’, Document distributed to the Group of Governmental Experts to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, December 2002.