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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/173
19 February 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 41
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/52/L.69 and Add.1)]
52/173. Assistance in mine clearance
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 48/7 of 19 October 1993, 49/215 of 23 December 1994, 50/82 of 14 December
1995 and 51/149 of 13 December 1996 on assistance in mine clearance, all adopted without a vote,
Considering demining to be an important component of United Nations humanitarian and development
activities,
Reaffirming its deep concern at the tremendous humanitarian problem caused by the presence of mines
and other unexploded devices that have serious and lasting social and economic consequences for the
populations of mine-infested countries and constitute an obstacle to the return of refugees and other displaced
persons, to humanitarian aid operations and to reconstruction and economic development, as well as to the
restoration of normal social conditions,
Reiterating its dismay at the high number of victims of mines, especially among civilian populations,
particularly children, and recalling in this context Commission on Human Rights resolutions 1995/79 of
8 March 1995,1 1996/85 of 24 April 19962 and 1997/78 of 18 April 19973 on the rights of the child and
resolution 1996/27 of 19 April 19962 and decision 1997/107 of 11 April 19973 on the human rights of persons
with disability,
1
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1995, Supplement No. 3 and corrigenda
(E/1995/23 and Corr.1 and 2), chap. II, sect. A.
2
Ibid., 1996, Supplement No. 3 (E/1996/23).
3
Ibid., 1997, Supplement No. 3 (E/1997/23).
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