Philipp von Michaelis, CEO of GCS, held a breakfast presentation on the current mine contamination in Iraq and Libya to members of the German parliament in Berlin.

GCS demonstrated its capabilities and references and presented a general requirement for implementing concrete measures for the sustainable achievement of goal in humanitarian mine action, as well as the tendering process and the awarding of public contracts. The need for an efficient alignment between clearance/disposal of explosive remnants of war (ERW), including landmines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and cluster munitions with the reconstruction of former conflict zones and capacity building was also presented and discussed during the event.