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On Thursday, during a plenary session, the Senate adopted the law “On Ratification of the Agreement on the Joint Engineering Unit for Humanitarian Demining of the Armed Forces of the Member States of the Commonwealth of Independent States.” The document provides for the formation, application and status of such a unit.

“The main tasks of the joint unit are technical reconnaissance of minefields and objects for the presence of mines and explosive objects, as well as their demining, clearing areas where military operations were previously carried out from mines and explosive objects, neutralization of discovered mines and explosive objects,” said the Deputy Minister defense Daryn Tuyakov.

He noted that the decision to send a national engineering unit to participate in humanitarian demining operations is taken by the sending party in accordance with its legislation. The agreement also provides for the possibility of involving a joint unit in the implementation of humanitarian demining tasks in the territories of states that are not members of the CIS.