Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
1993
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SymbolA/RES/48/79
TitleConvention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
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Summary
Notes with satisfaction that additional States have signed, ratified or accepted the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects; urgently calls upon all States that have not yet done so to take all measures to become parties, as soon as possible, to the Convention and upon successor States to take appropriate measures so that ultimately access to this instrument will be universal; calls upon the Secretary-General of UN in his capacity as depositary of the Convention and its 3 Protocols, to inform it periodically of accessions to the Convention and its Protocols; welcomes the request to the Secretary-General to convene at an appropriate time, if possible in 1994, in accordance with article 8, paragraph 3, of the Convention, a review conference of the Convention; encourages the States Parties to request the Secretary-General to establish as soon as possible a group of governmental experts to prepare the review conference of the Convention and to furnish needed assistance and assure services, including the preparation of analytical reports that the review conference and the group of experts might need; calls upon the maximum number of States to attend the conference, to which the States parties may invite interested non-governmental organizations, in particular ICRC.
Action note1993-12-16
Vote summary
Adopted 162-0-3, 81st meeting
Meeting record
A/48/PV.81
Date[New York] : UN, 7 Jan. 1994.
Description
3 p.
Notes
Adopted at the 81st plenary meeting, 16 Dec. 1993.