TOKYO, Dec 3: Japan will provide Ukraine with aid worth 4 billion yen (about USD 25.6 million) for mine clearance, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Japanese Ambassador to Kyiv, Masashi Nakagome and Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko signed and exchanged notes envisaging granting aid under the Programme for Emergency Response on Humanitarian Mine Action and UXO Clearance.
“This cooperation aims to facilitate Ukraine’s early recovery from war damage, including landmine contamination, by providing equipment and materials for landmine and unexploded ordnance clearance, medical treatment, and care for victims of explosive devices, and risk avoidance education activities, utilising Japanese technology. This will thereby contribute to the rapid recovery and reconstruction of Ukraine,” the Ministry said in a statement.
In 2005, Ukraine ratified the 1999 Ottawa Convention, which prohibits the use, stockpiling and production of anti-personnel mines. However, on June 29, 2025, Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree on Ukraine’s withdrawal from the Ottawa Convention.
Ukraine is also a signatory state of the Protocol V (on Explosive Remnants of War) of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), which was adopted on November 28, 2003 and came into force on November 12, 2006.
It obliges parties to clear explosive remnants of war, including unexploded ordnance and abandoned explosive ordnance. The Convention is aimed at restricting the use of certain conventional weapons, which may be extremely injurious. (UNI)
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