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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/53/81
8 January 1999
Fifty-third session
Agenda item 75
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the First Committee (A/53/588)]
53/81.
Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain
Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively
Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 52/42 of 9 December 1997 and previous resolutions referring to the
Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be
Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects,1
Recalling with satisfaction the adoption, on 10 October 1980, of the Convention, together with the
Protocol on Non-Detectable Fragments (Protocol I),1 the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the
Use of Mines, Booby Traps and Other Devices (Protocol II)1 and the Protocol on Prohibitions or
Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons (Protocol III),1 which entered into force on 2 December
1983,
Also recalling with satisfaction the adoption by the Review Conference of the States Parties to the
Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be
Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects, on 13 October 1995 of the Protocol
1
See The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, vol. 5: 1980 (United Nations publication, Sales
No. E.81.IX.4), appendix VII.
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