Monday, August 31 2020 16:48

ArmInfo. On August 31, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Artsakh Masis Mayilian received Regional Director of The HALO Trust international  non-governmental organization Nick Smart, outgoing Program Manager  Robert Syfret, and newly appointed Artsakh Program Manager Miles  Hawthorn.

As the press service of  Artsakh MFA reports,Robert Syfret introduced  his successor Miles Hawthorne to Foreign Minister Masis Mayilian and  expressed his gratitude to the authorities of the Republic of Artsakh  for cooperation and their support of the organization's humanitarian  demining mission.  Regional Director of The HALO Trust international  NGO Nick Smart briefed the Foreign Minister on the details of The  HALO Trust's humanitarian demining activities in Artsakh and its  future programs.

The interlocutors expressed satisfaction with the level of  cooperation between The HALO Trust and the relevant state structures  of Artsakh.

The HALO is a non-political and non-religious registered British  charity and American non-profit organization which removes debris  left behind by war, in particular land mines. HALO is an acronym for  Hazardous Area Life-Support organization. Founded by Member of the  British Parliament and former Colonel of the British Army Colin  Campbell Mitchell in 1988. Diana, Princess of Wales, in January 1997,  worked with the HALO Trust on its global campaign to end the  production of antipersonnel mines (Diana wore a body armor with the  HALO-TRUST emblem during her trip to Angola).  The HALO Trust employs  over 7,000 engineers. Its employees worked in Nagorno-Karabakh,  Cambodia, Mozambique, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Eritrea, Abkhazia,  Chechnya, Kosovo, Angola and Afghanistan