Slovak soldiers In Iraq continue their mine clearing work

During eleven months of their work in Iraq, the Slovak military engineer unit has manually cleared of land mines area of 73,000 square meters and almost 51,000 square meters using the mine clearing vehicle Bozena. With a special mine-clearing tank T-55C over 225,000 square meters were cleared. This data are part of a report that the Defence Minister submitted to the cabinet last week. Slovakia has deployed approximately one hundred military engineers in Iraq. Their replacement is prepared soon, under the already second rotation plan. During the rotation scheduled for July 26 to August 5 the unit will not be fulfilling its operational tasks.