A/RES/57/98 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 _______________ 4 5 2 CCW/CONF.II/2 (Part II). See CCW/AP.II/CONF.3/4 (Part I and Corr.1 and 2 and Part II).