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

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 74 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, published in 1996.

What other versions does this mandate have?

41 versions · 1985–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/68

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/68	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	1,435	94%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/75	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	1,472	81%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/64	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	1,587	78%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/92	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	1,420	60%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/64	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	1,515	70%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Conferences Disarmament Agreements Landmines Laser Weapons Participants Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

Registers its satisfaction with the report of the Secretary-General;⁴

⁴A/50/326.

Welcomes the fact that additional States have 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, which was opened for signature in New York on 10 April 1981, or have acceded to the Convention;

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 its Protocols and upon successor States to take appropriate measures so that ultimately access to these instruments will be universal;

Calls upon the Secretary-General, in his capacity as depositary of the Convention and the Protocols annexed thereto, to continue to inform it periodically of accessions to the Convention and the Protocols;

Takes note of the interim report of the Review Conference of the States Parties to 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, held at Vienna from 25 September to 13 October 1995;⁵

⁵CCW/CONF.I/8/Rev.1.

Commends the Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons (Protocol IV) 2/ to all States, with a view to achieving the widest possible adherence to this instrument at an early date;

Calls upon the States parties to intensify their efforts in order to conclude negotiations on a strengthened Protocol II;

Takes note of the decision of the Review Conference to continue its work at resumed sessions at Geneva from 15 to 19 January and 22 April to 3 May 1996;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue furnishing needed assistance to the Review Conference;

Again calls upon the maximum number of States to attend the Review Conference;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-first session the item entitled "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".

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