On 14 September 2003, the Thailand Mine Action Centre (TMAC) hosted a field visit for 5MSP delegates to demining sites in Baan Nong Ya Kaew, Sa Kaew Province, located near the Thai-Cambodian border. Delegates witnessed demonstrations by TMAC's First Humanitarian Demining Unit and the Japan Alliance for Humanitarian Demining Support (JAHDS).
![](/fileadmin/APMBC/5MSP_Major_General_Gitti_Su.jpeg) Major General Gitti Suksomstarn, Director General of TMAC, briefs delegates prior to departure from Bangkok to Wattana Nakhon Airfield in eastern Thailand.
![](/fileadmin/APMBC/5MSP_Deminers_TMAC.jpeg) Deminers from TMAC's First Humanitarian Demining Unit prepare to demonstrate their work to 5MSP delegates.
![](/fileadmin/APMBC/5MSP_Mansfield_Tomita_JAHDS.jpeg) GICHD Operations Director, Ian Mansfield, and JAHDS Executive Director, Hiroshi Tomita, stand in front of Angkor Sdok Kok Thom, the 700-year-old temple which will be free of mines by the end of 2003.
![](/fileadmin/APMBC/5MSP_JAHDS_deminers.jpeg) JAHDS deminers welcome delegates at the Angkor Sdok Kok Thom demining site.
![](/fileadmin/APMBC/5MSP_Laohaphan_Ambass_Thail.jpeg) Laxanachantorn Laohaphan, Ambassador of Thailand to the United Nations in Geneva, detonates a mine.
![](/fileadmin/APMBC/5MSP_Laurie_Goose_Williams.jpeg) Delegates participating in the field visit included 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Co-Laureate Jody Williams (right), along with the ICBL's Steve Goose (centre) and Gustavo Laurie of the United Nations Mine Action Service (left).
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