According to a State Department fact sheet, since January 2006 the United States has funded projects in Afghanistan that have destroyed or secured more than 9,000 metric tons of unexploded, abandoned, or otherwise at-risk munitions and small arms and light weapons. The UN News Centre reported that more than 82,000 anti-personnel mines and 900 anti-tank mines were cleared in 2008 alone, but that the estimated $500 million still needed to clear the country of antipersonnel landmines might be impacted by the global economic downturn. Under its Mine Ban Treaty obligations, Afghanistan has a mine-clearance deadline of 2013.
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