Representatives from more than 50 countries, international organizations and civil society are set to meet in Switzerland on Thursday and Friday for an international conference on mine clearance in Ukraine. Participants of the Ukraine Mine Action Conference in Lausanne are to discuss how to integrate mine clearance in Ukraine with social and economic reconstruction. They are to also consider new methods to more quickly investigate potentially contaminated areas, as well as new financing models. Among these is a proposal by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) that the Ukrainian gove…