A/RES/78/70
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 December 2023
Seventy-eighth session
Agenda item 46
Assistance in mine action
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 7 December 2023
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/78/417, para. 8)]
78/70.
Assistance in mine action
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 76/74 of 9 December 2021 and all its previous
resolutions on assistance in mine clearance and on assistance in mine action, all
adopted without a vote,
Recalling also all relevant treaties and conventions 1 and their review processes,
Noting with appreciation the extent to which the International Day for Mine
Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action continues to be commemorated wo rldwide,
Noting all relevant United Nations resolutions that take into account the
humanitarian aspects of assistance in mine action,
Reaffirming its deep concern at the grave humanitarian and development impact
of mines and explosive remnants of war, 2 in affected countries, which have serious
and lasting social and economic consequences for their civilian populations, including
refugees and other displaced persons returning to their homes, as well as persons
residing in conflict and post-conflict areas, and which hinder the access of people in
need to humanitarian assistance and the achievement of sustainable development and
inhibit peacebuilding and sustaining peace efforts,
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These include the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer
of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, 1997; the Protocol on Prohibitions or
Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby Traps and Other Devices, as amended in 1996 (Protocol II
to the 1980 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional
Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have In discriminate Effects);
the Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War, 2003 (Protocol V to the 1980 Convention); the
Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008; the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of
12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts 1977
(Protocol I); and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2006.
As defined by Protocol V to the 1980 Convention.
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