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 51 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 1983.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 1979–1983

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?

4 operative paragraphs

Urges those States that have not yet done so to exert their best endeavours to become parties to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Con ventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Exces sively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects and the Protocols annexed thereto, as early as possible, so as to obtain their entry into force and, ultimately, their universal adherence;

Takes note of the fact that, under article 8 of the Convention, conferences may be convened to consider amendments to the Convention or any of the annexed Pro tocols, to consider additional protocols relating to other categories of conventional weapons not covered by the ex isting annexed Protocols, or to review the scope and op eration of the Convention and the Protocols annexed thereto and to consider any proposal for amendments to the Con vention or to the existing annexed Protocols and any pro posals for additional protocols relating to other categories of conventional weapons not covered by the existing an nexed Protocols;

Requests the Secretary-General, as the depositary of the Convention and its three annexed Protocols, to inform the General Assembly from time to time of the state of adherence to the said Convention and its Protocols;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-eighth session the item entitled ''United Nations Con ference on Prohibitions or Restrictions of Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Ex cessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects''.

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"' Resolution S-10/2. •• See A/CONF.95/15 and Corr.2, annex I.

" Official Records of the Urneral Assembly, Twelfth Special Session, •• A/37/199 and Corr. I.

Supplement No. 2 (A/S-12/2)

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