Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction

A/RES/52/38[A]View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 71 General and complete disarmament, published in 1998.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1998–1999

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/53/77[N]

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1999	A/RES/53/77[N]	Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction	—	—
1998	A/RES/52/38[A]	Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction	—	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Disarmament Agreements Landmines Mine Clearance Rehabilitation Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Technical Cooperation Weapons Destruction

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

A/RES/52/38 [A]

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Invites all States to sign the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, which was open for signature at Ottawa on 3 and 4 December 1997 and at Headquarters in New York on 5 December 1997, and which shall remain open for signature thereafter at Headquarters until its entry into force;

Urges all States to ratify the Convention without delay subsequent to their signatures;

Calls upon all States to contribute towards the full realization and effective implementation of the Convention to advance the care and rehabilitation, and the social and economic reintegration of mine victims, and mine-awareness programmes, and the removal of anti-personnel mines placed throughout the world and the assurance of their destruction;

Requests the Secretary-General to render the necessary assistance and to provide such services as may be necessary to fulfil the tasks entrusted to him by the Convention;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-third session an item entitled "Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction".

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