United Kingdom (Falkland Islands)

The United Kingdom (UK) has said that UK bombing data for the Falkland Islands shows there is no evidence that cluster munitions were dropped on the four remaining minefelds in Yorke Bay, which totalled an estimated 226,958m^₂ as at end of March 2020.Email from an offcial in the Counter Proliferation and Arms Control Centre, Foreign and Commonwealth Offce (FCO), 18 May 2020; and FCO, Falklands Demining Programme Work Plan under Article (5), 30 April 2020, pp. 3–4. As all other hazardous areas (including both cluster munition-contaminated and mined areas) in the Falkland Islands have already been released, there are no remaining areas in which cluster munition remnants (CMR) are suspected or confirmed.

If any CMR or other items of explosive ordnance are found following the conclusion of the United Kingdom’s demining programme on the Falkland Islands, the authorities have confrmed that they will be addressed by the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team from the Royal Air Force Armament Engineering Flight on the Falkland Islands, which has an “enduring” military presence there.

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