But it is unclear how many of the eight de-mining programmes undertaken with €9m of foreign-ministry funding were actually completed.
The key to preventing this from happening again lies in carefully designed safer mining programmes that are pragmatic and relevant," Tirima said.
Government mining programmes have dealt a blow to the region's natural environment, forcing many of its indigenous nomads to abandon their traditional way of life.
Mass collection of information will enable GCHQ to launch the data-mining programmes which police and the intelligence agencies argue is crucial for tracking terrorists, as well as uncovering paedophiles and finding missing people.
The real reason, which he did not mention, is that data mining programmes can trawl all this information looking for patterns that prompt more particular eavesdropping and data collection as a preventive measure anticipating crime or terrorism.
One of the areas of greatest concern surrounding Prism and other NSA data-mining programmes has been that although they set their sights on foreign terror suspects, their digital net can catch thousands of unsuspecting Americans on US soil.
The report supports the international campaign for a complete ban on the use, production, trade and stockpiling of land-mines; programmes to instruct children in mine-contaminated areas about the dangers of mines; child-centred rehabilitation programmes and land-mine clearance with contributions required from countries and companies profiting from land-mine sales.
The other is to train identified persons for basic de-mining operations as part of community-based de-mining programmes.
In June the Swedish Parliament voted into law a data-mining programme strongly backed by the defence ministry.
A dispute over a large-scale data-mining programme sent administration officials scurrying to John Ashcroft's hospital bedside in March 2004.
"It was a British-made anti-tank mine," Abigail Hartley, the manager of the UN mine programme in Afghanistan, told the Associated Press.
