Invites all States that have not signed the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction to accede to it without delay; urges all States that have signed but have not ratified the Convention to ratify it without delay; stresses the importance of the full and effective implementation of and compliance with the Convention, including through the swift implementation of the Nairobi Action Plan 2005-2009; urges all States parties to provide the Secretary-General with complete and timely information as required under article 7 of the Convention; requests the Secretary-General, in accordance with article 11, paragraph 2, of the Convention, to undertake the preparations necessary to convene the next meeting of the States parties and to invite States not parties to the Convention, as well as UN, other relevant international organizations or institutions, regional organizations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and relevant non-governmental organizations to attend the 7th meeting of the States parties as observers; decides to include in the provisional agenda of its 61st session the item entitled "Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction".

Adopted 158-0-17, 61st plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 60th sess., Suppl. no. 49.