A/RES/70/80
United Nations
Distr.: General
15 December 2015
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 51
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 9 December 2015
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/70/493)]
70/80.
Assistance in mine action
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 68/72 of 11 December 2013 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 1 and their review processes,
Noting with appreciation the extent to which the tenth anniversary of the
International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action was
commemorated worldwide on 4 April 2015,
Reaffirming its deep concern at the tremendous humanitarian and development
problems caused by mines and explosive remnants of war, 2 in affected countries,
which have serious and lasting social and economic consequences for the
populations of such countries, and negatively affect the delivery of humanitarian
assistance,
Bearing in mind the serious humanitarian threat that mines and explosive
remnants of war, including cluster munitions, pose, in affected countries, 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 still very large, albeit decreasing, number of mines and
areas of square kilometres contaminated by them, as well as the growing number of
explosive remnants of war, as a result of armed conflicts, and therefore remaining
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1
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.
2
As defined by Protocol V to the 1980 Convention.
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