A/RES/73/137
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 75 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 14 December 2018
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.51 and A/73/L.51/Add.1)]
73/137.
Safety and security of humanitarian personnel and protection
of United Nations personnel
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolution 46/182 of 19 December 1991 on the strengthening of
the coordination of humanitarian emergency assistance of the United Nations,
Recalling all relevant resolutions on the safety and security of humanitarian
personnel and protection of United Nations personnel, including its resolution 72/131
of 11 December 2017, as well as Security Council resolutions on the protection of
humanitarian personnel, including resolution 2175 (2014) of 29 August 2014, and
relevant statements by the President of the Council,
Recalling also all Security Council resolutions and presidential statements and
reports of the Secretary-General to the Council on the protection of civilians in armed
conflict, including resolution 2286 (2016) of 3 May 2016,
Reaffirming the principles, rules and relevant provisions of international law,
including international humanitarian law and human rights law, as well as all relevant
treaties, 1 and the need to further promote and ensure respect thereof,
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These include, notably, the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations
of 13 February 1946, the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized
Agencies of 21 November 1947, the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated
Personnel of 9 December 1994, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Safety of United
Nations and Associated Personnel of 8 December 2005, the Geneva Convention relative to the
Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 12 August 1949 and the Additional Protocols to
the Geneva Conventions of 8 June 1977, and Amended Protocol II of 3 May 1996 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 of 10 October
1980, as applicable.
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