A/RES/53/122 Page 2 Welcoming the efforts exerted by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the reunification of family members of refugees, Noting the efforts of the High Commissioner to ensure the protection of and assistance to refugees, including children and unaccompanied minors, and noting that further efforts need to be exerted to this effect, Recalling the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child1 and the 1951 Convention2 and the 1967 Protocol3 relating to the Status of Refugees, 1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;4 2. Also takes note of the report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict;5 3. Expresses its deep concern at the continued plight of unaccompanied refugee minors, and emphasizes once again the urgent need for their early identification and for timely, detailed and accurate information on their number and whereabouts; 4. Expresses the hope once again that adequate resources will be provided for programmes of identification and tracing of unaccompanied refugee minors; 5. Calls upon the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, in cooperation with other relevant United Nations bodies, to incorporate into its programmes policies that aim at preventing refugee family separation, conscious of the importance of family unity; 6. Calls upon all Governments, the Secretary-General, the Office of the High Commissioner, all United Nations organizations, other international organizations and non-governmental organizations concerned to exert the maximum effort to assist and protect refugee minors and to expedite the return to and reunification with their families of unaccompanied refugee minors; 7. Urges the Office of the High Commissioner, all United Nations organizations, other international organizations and non-governmental organizations concerned to take appropriate steps to mobilize resources commensurate with the needs and interests of unaccompanied refugee minors and for their reunification with their families; 8. Calls upon all States and other parties to armed conflict to respect international humanitarian law, and, in this regard, calls upon States parties to respect fully the provisions of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 19496 and related instruments, while bearing in mind resolution 2 adopted at the twenty-sixth International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, held at Geneva in December 1995, and to 1 Resolution 44/25, annex. 2 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 189, No. 2545. 3 Ibid., vol. 606, No. 8791. 4 A/53/325. 5 A/53/482, annex. 6 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970-973. /...