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

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 52 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 1982.

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	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Conventional Weapons Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Treaties

What’s in this document?

3 operative paragraphs

Urges those States which have not yet done so to exert their best endeavours to sign and ratify 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 and the Protocols annexed thereto as early as possible so as to obtain the entry into force of the Convention, and ultimately its universal adherence;

Notes that, under article 8 of the Convention, conferences may be convened to consider amendments to the Convention or any of the Protocols annexed thereto, to consider additional protocols relating to other categories of conventional weapons not covered by the existing annexed Protocols, or to review the scope and operation of the Convention and the Protocols annexed thereto and to consider any proposal for amendments to the Convention or to the existing Protocols and any proposals for additional protocols relating to other categories of conventional weapons not covered by the existing annexed Protocols;

Requests the Secretary-General, as depositary of the Convention and the three Protocols annexed thereto, to in-

III. form the General Assembly from time to time of the state of adherence to the Convention and its Protocols;

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Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-seventh session the item entitled "United Nations Conference on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain C<:mventi<?n~I Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively InJunous or to Have Indiscriminate Effects'' .

"See A/CONF.95115 and Corr.I, annex I. >0 Resolution 35/46.

" A/36/406.

'·1 Official Records of the General Ass,•mblv, Thirl\'-sixth Session, Sup- {'lement No. 27 (A/36C7)

· · " Resolution S-1012.

" Ibid .. para. IOI

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