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Have Indiscriminate Effects, 4 and commending the efforts of the President of the
Conference,
Recalling with satisfaction the decision by the Second Review Conference, on
21 December 2001, to extend the scope of the Convention and the Protocols thereto
to include armed conflicts of a non-international character,4
Recalling the decision by the Second Review Conference to commission
follow-up work under the oversight of the Chairman-designate of a meeting of
States parties to the Convention to be held on 12 and 13 December 2002 at Geneva
in conjunction with the Fourth Annual Conference of States Parties to Amended
Protocol II, and in this context the decision to establish an open-ended group of
governmental experts with two separate coordinators on explosive remnants of war
and on mines other than anti-personnel mines, 4
Welcoming the additional ratifications and acceptances of or accessions to the
Convention and to amended Protocol II and Protocol IV, as well as accessions to the
amendment of article I of the Convention, adopted in 2001, 4
Recalling the role played by the International Committee of the Red Cross in
the elaboration of the Convention and the Protocols thereto,
Noting that the rules of procedure of the First Annual Conference of States
Parties to Amended Protocol II provide for the invitation of States not parties to the
Protocol, the International Committee of the Red Cross and interested nongovernmental organizations to take part in the Conference,
Welcoming the particular efforts of various international, non-governmental
and other organizations in raising awareness of the humanitarian consequences of
explosive remnants of war,
Welcoming also the results of the Third Annual Conference of States Parties to
Amended Protocol II, held at Geneva on 10 December 2001, 5
1.
Calls upon all States that have not yet done so to take all measures to
become parties, as soon as possible, 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 Effects1 and the Protocols
thereto, as amended, as well as the amendment of article I extending the scope of
the Convention, 4 with a view to achieving the widest possible adherence to these
instruments at an early date, and calls upon successor States to take appropriate
measures so that ultimately adherence to these instruments will be universal;
2.
Calls upon all States parties to the Convention that have not yet done so
to express their consent to be bound by the Protocols to the Convention;
3.
Calls upon all States parties to the Convention that have not yet done so
to notify the depositary at an early date of their consent to be bound by the
amendment extending the scope of the Convention and the Protocols annexed
thereto to include armed conflicts of a non-international character; 4
4.
Notes the mandate of the Second Review Conference for the
establishment of a group of governmental experts with two separate coordinators to
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CCW/CONF.II/2 (Part II).
See CCW/AP.II/CONF.3/4 (Part I and Corr.1 and 2 and Part II).
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