A/RES/69/120
United Nations
Distr.: General
18 December 2014
General Assembly
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 79
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 10 December 2014
[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/69/499)]
69/120. Status of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva
Conventions of 1949 and relating to the protection
of victims of armed conflicts
The General Assembly,
Recalling its biennial resolutions on the status of the Protocols Additional to
the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and relating to the protection of victims of armed
conflicts, including its resolution 67/93 of 14 December 2012,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General,1
Reaffirming the continuing value of established humanitarian rules relating to
armed conflicts and the need to respect and ensure respect for those rules in all
circumstances within the scope of the relevant international instruments, pending
the earliest possible termination of such conflicts,
Stressing the need to consolidate the existing body of international
humanitarian law through its universal acceptance and the need for wide
dissemination and full implementation of such law at the national level, and
expressing concern about all violations of the Geneva Conventions of 19492 and the
Additional Protocols,3
Calling upon Member States to disseminate knowledge of international
humanitarian law as widely as possible, and calling upon all parties to armed
conflict to apply international humanitarian law,
Noting with satisfaction the increasing number of national commissions and
other bodies involved in advising authorities at the national level on the
implementation, dissemination and development of international humanitarian law,
Noting with appreciation the meetings of representatives of those bodies
organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross, together with relevant
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1
A/69/184 and Add.1.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
3
Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513, and vol. 2404, No. 43425.
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