United Nations Conference on Prohibitions or Restrictions of Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 41 United Nations Conference on Prohibitions or Restrictions of Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects, published in 1980.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 1979–1983

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/37/79

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1983	A/RES/37/79	United Nations Conference on Prohibitions or Restrictions of Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects	483	64%Compare
1982	A/RES/36/93	United Nations Conference on Prohibitions or Restrictions of Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects	509	46%Compare
1981	A/RES/35/153	United Nations Conference on Prohibitions or Restrictions of Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects	578	39%Compare
1980	A/RES/34/82	United Nations Conference on Prohibitions or Restrictions of Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects	574	40%Compare
1979	A/RES/33/70	United Nations Conference on Prohibitions or Restrictions of Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects	581	–

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3 subjects

Conferences Conventional Weapons Treaties

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10 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the United Nations 1. Conference on Prohibitions or Restrictions of Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects on the work of its session held at Geneva from 10 to 28 September 1979;34 2.

Notes with appreciation that the Conference reached agreement with regard to a draft proposal concerning non-detectable fragments; Session, Supplement No. 28 (A/34/28), para. 15.

s, A/CONF.95/8.

Notes also that the report indicates a wide measure of agreement in respect of land-mines and booby traps, and that there was a further conver$ence of views in relation to the prohibition or restriction of use of incendiary weapons;

Takes note of the progress made by the Conference Working Group on a General Treaty entrusted with the preparation of the text of a convention to which optional protocols or clauses embodying prohibitions or restrictions of use of certain conventional weapons, deemed to be excessively injurious or to have indiscriminate effects, would be attached;

Takes note also of the resolution of the Conference concerning the development of small calibre weapon systems, 85 in which, inter alia, the Conference stressed the need to exercise the utmost care in their development so as to avoid an unnecessary escalation of the mjurious effects of such systems;

Endorses the recommendation of the Conference to hold another session at Geneva for a period of up to four weeks, starting on 15 September 1980, with a view to completing negotiations in conformity with General Assembly resolutions 32/152 and 33/70;

Takes note of the understanding of the Conference that issues on which agreement has already been achieved should not be reopened at the forthcoming session, so that all efforts may be concentrated on working out agreement on outstanding issues;

Invites States to continue to participate actively in the Conference and to be r~presented, in so far as possible, by the required legal, military and medical expertise;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide necessary assistance to the Conference;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-fifth session the item entitled "United Nations Conference on Prohibitions or Restrictions of Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects: report of the Conference".

BULGARIA, DJIBOUTI, EGYPT, GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, PANAMA, POLAND, ROMANIA, SEYCHELLES, SINGAPORE, SUDAN and YUGOSLAVIA.

BANGLADESH, BULGARIA, CANADA, CHINA, DEMOCRATIC YEMEN, DJIBOUTI, EGYPT, ETHIOPIA, FRANCE, GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, GERMANY, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF, GREECE, INDIA, INDONESIA, IRAN, IRAQ, ITALY, JAPAN, KENYA, LIBERIA, MADA· GASCAR, MALAYSIA, MAURITIUS, MOZAMBIQUE, NETHERLANDS, NORWAY, OMAN, PAKISTAN, PANAMA, POLAND, ROMANIA, SEY· CHELLES, SINGAPORE, SOMALIA, SRI LANKA, SUDAN, UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS, UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, UNITED REPUBLIC OF TAN· ZANIA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, YEMEN, YUGOSLAVIA and ZAMBIA.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON DISARMAMENT

DISARMAMENT AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

88 Ibid.

Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/34/27 and Corr.I).

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