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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/51/155
30 January 1997
Fifty-first session
Agenda item 142
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/51/622 and Corr.1)]
51/155.
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 and 49/48 of 9 December 1994,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General1 on the status of
the Protocols2 Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 19493 and relating to
the protection of victims of armed conflicts,
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,
Recalling the possibility of making use of the International FactFinding Commission in relation to an armed conflict, pursuant to article 90 of
Protocol I,
Stressing 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,
1
A/51/215 and Corr.1 and Add.1.
2
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513.
3
Ibid., vol. 75, Nos. 970-973.
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