Questions and Answers: Half landmine stock destroyed

Thursday 18 June 1998 23:02 BST

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HALF the military's stock of anti-personnel landmines will have been destroyed by July, the Defence Secretary George Robertson announced yesterday

Mr Robertson said in a Commons written answer that the Government was making "rapid progress" towards its target of total destruction of all its stocks by 1 January 2000.

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