Europe helps Egypt remove land mines

Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa said the European Union has agreed to offer Egypt some US $1.7 million to help fund the process of removing land mines planted in Egypt during previous wars.

The Egyptian daily al-Akhbar on Sunday said the Egyptian Foreign Ministry has succeeded in contracting with the European Union to dismantle the land mines as well as to propose a special project on land reclamation from which mines are to be dismantled in the western Sahara Desert in Egypt.