The role of the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS).
The United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) is a division of DPKO, and is the focal point for mine action in the United Nations system. It seeks to ensure an effective, proactive and coordinated United Nations response to landmine contamination through collaboration with United Nations departments, agencies, funds and programmes. Coordination : UNMAS chairs the IACG-MA and the SCMA at the working level, provides the secretariat for both bodies, and coordinates the preparation of the Secretary-General’s report to the General Assembly on assistance in mine action and represents the United Nations Secretariat during the General Assembly deliberations on the item. It coordinates the United Nations input to the Standing Committees of the APMBT and meetings of the CCW. It coordinates threat-monitoring and inter-agency assessment missions. UNMAS coordinates the development and monitoring of all United Nations mine action policy and strategy documents. UNMAS also ensures that mine a...