A/RES/73/54
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 December 2018
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 101 (ll)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 5 December 2018
[on the report of the First Committee (A/73/510 and A/73/510/Corr.1)]
73/54.
Implementation of the Convention on Cluster Munitions
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 63/71 of 2 December 2008 on the Convention on
Cluster Munitions and 70/54 of 7 December 2015, 71/45 of 5 December 2016 and
72/54 of 4 December 2017 on the implementation of the Convention,
Reaffirming its determination to put an end for all time to the suffering and
casualties caused by cluster munitions at the time of their use, when they fail to
function as intended or when they are abandoned,
Deploring the recent cases of cluster munitions use and related civilian
casualties, and calling upon those who continue to use cluster munitions to cease any
such activity immediately,
Conscious that cluster munition remnants kill or maim civilians, including
women and children, obstruct economic and social devel opment, including through
the loss of livelihood, impede post-conflict rehabilitation and reconstruction, delay or
prevent the return of refugees and internally displaced persons, can have a negative
impact on national and international peacebuilding and humanitarian assistance
efforts, and have other severe consequences for many years after use,
Concerned about the dangers presented by the large national stockpiles of
cluster munitions retained for operational use, and determined to ensure their rapid
destruction,
Recognizing the impact of cluster munitions on women, men, girls and boys and
the importance of relevant States providing adequate, gender- and age-sensitive
assistance to victims of cluster munitions,
Believing it necessary to contribute effectively in an efficient, coordinated
manner to resolving the challenge of removing cluster munition remnants located
throughout the world, and to ensure their destruction,
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