Pristina - More than 25,000 cluster-bombs, each capable of killing or maiming several Kosovan men, women and children, as well as NATO peacekeepers, cannot be cleared from the Kosovan countryside because NATO refuses to tell United Nations deminers exactly where they were dropped during last year's air war, Christian Jennings reports.
Officials from the United Nations Mine Action Co-Ordination Centre, or UNMACC, in Pristina, say that they are not receiving sufficiently accurate information from the US military and NATO to allow them to locate the whereabouts of 40 per cent of cluster-bombs dropped.
"We know exactly what information is out there," said Mr John Flanagan, Project Manager of the MACC, this week in the Kosovan regional capital. "We're being given a certain amount, not the full amount."