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UN Secretary-General welcomes weapons disposal

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    UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has welcomed the completion of a weapon-destruction programme in Liberia that began on 25 July and ended on Monday.

    The programme involved the destruction of over 19,000 small and heavy-calibre weapons and more than three million rounds of ammunition collected by the United Nations and Economic Community of West African States’ Peace Monitoring Observer Group (ECOMOG) during a 1996-1997 disarmament exercise.

    The weapons were left over from a civil war that started in 1989 and ended officially in 1997.

    Annan said on Tuesday that he believed the weapons disposal in Liberia represented an important step towards curbing the dangerous proliferation of weapons in West Africa and enhancing confidence and cooperation among the countries and peoples of the region.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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