Reaffirming its deep concern at the tremendous humanitarian and development problems caused by the presence of mines and other unexploded ordnance that constitute an obstacle to the return of refugees and other displaced persons, to humanitarian aid operations and to reconstruction and economic development, as well as to the restoration of normal social conditions, and that have serious and lasting social and economic consequences for the populations of mine-affected countries,
重申对地（水）雷和其他未爆弹药的存在所造成的巨大人道主义和发展问题深为关切，这些问题对难民及其他流离失所者返回家园、人道主义援助行动、重建和经济发展以及恢复正常社会状况构成障碍，并为受地（水）雷影响国家的人民带来严重和持久的社会经济后果，