the working group, and invites the Committee on the Rights of the Child to consider being represented and the Special Rapporteur to consider being present at the next session of the working group; (b) To request the working group to meet for a period of two weeks prior to the next session of the Commission and to redouble its efforts with the aim of finalizing the draft optional protocol by the tenth anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and, to that end, encourages the Chairman of the working group to conduct broad informal consultations; IV Protection of children affected by armed conflict 10. Welcomes: (a) The appointment for three years of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the impact of armed conflict on children, as proposed by the General Assembly in its resolution 51/77 of 12 December 1996, to follow up the practical recommendations contained in the final report of the expert appointed by the Secretary-General on this question (see A/51/306 and Add.1), as well as the first report of the Special Representative (E/CN.4/1998/119); (b) The report of the working group on a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflicts on its fourth session (E/CN.4/1998/102), while regretting that consensus was not reached at that session; 11. Calls upon all States: (a) To consider acceding to relevant international human rights and humanitarian law instruments, and urges them to implement those instruments to which they are parties; page 6