•HRES 361 IH 
a direct impact on development outcomes such as food se-
curity, school attendance, and economic development; 
Whereas people in at least 60 countries and other areas are 
at risk from mines and unexploded ordnance in their 
communities; 
Whereas more than 135,000 deaths and injuries resulting 
from antipersonnel or antivehicle mines and other explo-
sive remnants of war have been recorded in the Land-
mine Monitor database since 2001, and thousands more 
individuals around the world are killed and injured by 
such mines and remnants each year; 
Whereas, over the past 3 decades, the United States has been 
the global leader in supporting efforts to clear mine-con-
taminated areas around the world, dedicating more than 
$4,600,000,000 for demining and related programs in 
120 countries and territories since 1993; 
Whereas, since 1989, the United States Agency for Inter-
national 
Development 
has 
allocated 
more 
than 
$337,000,000 through the Leahy War Victims Fund in 
more than 50 countries to provide artificial limbs, wheel-
chairs, rehabilitation, vocational training, and other as-
sistance to survivors of accidents caused by landmines 
and unexploded ordnance; 
Whereas landmines contaminate countries in which the 
United States Armed Forces have been engaged in com-
bat or stabilization operations, including Iraq, Syria, 
Kosovo, Somalia, and in the Pacific Islands, posing a sig-
nificant risk to United States military personnel; 
Whereas the United States Government expressed its support 
for the Maputo +15 declaration of June 27, 2014, which 
established the goal ‘‘to destroy all stockpiled anti-per-
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
00:27 May 01, 2025
Jkt 059200
PO 00000
Frm 00002
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6300
E:\BILLS\HR361.IH
HR361
ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS
•HRES 361 IH 
sonnel mines and clear all mined areas as soon as pos-
sible’’; 
Whereas there are 164 States Parties to the Convention on 
the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production, and 
Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruc-
tion, done at the Oslo Landmine Conference, September 
18, 1997, although the United States is not yet among 
them; 
Whereas the recent use of landmines, cluster bombs, and 
other munitions, particularly in the Middle East, Afghan-
istan, Burma, and Ukraine, has created new humani-
tarian priorities and funding requirements for demining, 
while legacy mine contamination remains an urgent chal-
lenge impacting millions of people globally; 
Whereas Russia’s aggression in Ukraine has resulted in an 
estimated one-third of the territory being contaminated 
with landmines and unexploded ordnance, creating a 
massive need for clearance operations as a prerequisite 
for Ukraine’s recovery, but acknowledging that these 
needs in Ukraine do not diminish the similarly urgent 
need for humanitarian demining in other parts of the 
world; 
Whereas additional resources for demining will be needed to 
achieve a world free of the threat of landmines and other 
explosive hazards; 
Whereas, since the end of the Vietnam war, more than 
40,000 people in Vietnam have been killed by unexploded 
ordnance and 60,000 injured, at least 25,000 people have 
been killed or injured by explosives in Laos, and at least 
65,000 people in Cambodia since 1979; and 
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
00:27 May 01, 2025
Jkt 059200
PO 00000
Frm 00003
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6300
E:\BILLS\HR361.IH
HR361
ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS
•HRES 361 IH 
Whereas, on December 8, 2005, the United Nations General 
Assembly declared that April 4th of each year shall be 
observed as the International Day for Mine Awareness 
and Assistance in Mine Action: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) reaffirms the commitment of the United 
States to support international humanitarian efforts 
to eliminate landmines and unexploded ordnance; 
(2) recognizes the communities from Cambodia, 
Laos, and Vietnam including the many Hmong, 
Cham, 
Cambodian, 
Iu-Mien, 
Khmu, 
Lao, 
Montagnard, and Vietnamese people who supported 
and defended the United States Armed Forces dur-
ing the conflict in Southeast Asia during the 1960s 
and 1970s; 
(3) remembers the 50th anniversary of the end 
of the Vietnam war and the sacrifices of the mem-
bers of the United States Armed Forces that served 
in the conflict; 
(4) recognizes those individuals in numerous 
countries who, at great risk to their personal safety, 
work to locate and remove antipersonnel landmines 
and unexploded ordnance; 
(5) affirms its support for the goal, as ex-
pressed by the Maputo +15 declaration of June 27, 
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
00:27 May 01, 2025
Jkt 059200
PO 00000
Frm 00004
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6201
E:\BILLS\HR361.IH
HR361
ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS
•HRES 361 IH 
2014, to intensify efforts to clear mined areas to the 
fullest extent possible by 2025; 
(6) calls upon the United States Government— 
(A) to continue providing the funding nec-
essary to support international humanitarian 
demining activities; 
(B) to maintain its international leadership 
role in seeking to rid the world of areas con-
taminated by landmines and unexploded ord-
nance; and 
(C) to rededicate itself to addressing legacy 
mine contamination as an urgent humanitarian 
priority; and 
(7) reaffirms the goals of the International Day 
for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action. 
Æ 
VerDate Sep 11 2014 
00:27 May 01, 2025
Jkt 059200
PO 00000
Frm 00005
Fmt 6652
Sfmt 6301
E:\BILLS\HR361.IH
HR361
ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS