A/RES/68/72
United Nations
Distr.: General
16 December 2013
General Assembly
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 48
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 11 December 2013
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/68/421)]
68/72.
Assistance in mine action
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 66/69 of 9 December 2011 and all its previous
resolutions on assistance in mine clearance and on assistance in mine action, all
adopted without a vote,
Recalling also all relevant treaties and conventions
processes,
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and their review
Noting with appreciation the extent to which the International Day for Mine
Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action has been commemorated worldwide,
Reaffirming its deep concern at the tremendous humanitarian and development
problems caused by the presence of mines and explosive remnants of war, 2 which
have serious and lasting social and economic consequences for the populations of
countries affected by them,
Bearing in mind the serious threat that mines and explosive remnants of war,
including cluster munitions, pose to the safety, health and lives of local civilian
populations, as well as of personnel participating in humanitarian, peacekeeping,
rehabilitation and mine clearance programmes and operations,
Deeply alarmed by the number of mines that continue to be laid each year as
well as the presence of a decreasing but still very large number of, and area of
square kilometres contaminated by, mines and explosive remnants of war as a result
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These include the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of
Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, 1997; the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the
Use of Mines, Booby Traps and Other Devices, as amended in 1996 (Protocol II to the 1980 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 Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War,
2003 (Protocol V to the 1980 Convention); the Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008; the
Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of
Victims of International Armed Conflicts, 1977 (Protocol I); and the Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities, 2006.
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As defined by Protocol V to the 1980 Convention.
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