United Nations
A/RES/55/148
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 January 2001
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 155
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/55/605)]
55/148. 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 resolutions 32/44 of 8 December 1977, 34/51 of 23 November
1979, 37/116 of 16 December 1982, 39/77 of 13 December 1984, 41/72 of
3 December 1986, 43/161 of 9 December 1988, 45/38 of 28 November 1990, 47/30
of 25 November 1992, 49/48 of 9 December 1994, 51/155 of 16 December 1996 and
53/96 of 8 December 1998,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the status of the
Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and relating to the
protection of victims of armed conflicts, 1
Thanking Member States and the International Committee of the Red Cross for
their contribution to the report of the Secretary-General,
Convinced of the continuing value of established humanitarian rules relating to
armed conflicts and the need to respect and ensure respect for these rules in all
circumstances within the scope of the relevant international instruments, pending the
earliest possible termination of such conflicts,
Stressing the possibility of making use of the International Fact-Finding
Commission in relation to an armed conflict, pursuant to article 90 of Protocol I, 2
and recalling that the International Fact-Finding Commission may, where necessary,
facilitate, through its good offices, the restoration of an attitude of respect for the
Geneva Conventions 3 and the Protocol,
Stressing also the need for consolidating 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 and the two
additional Protocols, 4
1
A/55/173 and Corr.1 and 2 and Add.1.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1125, No. 17512.
3
Ibid., vol. 75, Nos. 970-973.
4
Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513.
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