A/RES/71/84
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 December 2016
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 102
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 5 December 2016
[on the report of the First Committee (A/71/454)]
71/84.
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 General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 70/71 of 7 December 2015,
Recalling with satisfaction the adoption and entry into force of 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 1 and
its amended article 1, 2 the Protocol on Non-Detectable Fragments (Protocol I), 1 the
Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby Traps and
Other Devices (Protocol II) 1 and its amended version, 3 the Protocol on Prohibitions
or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons (Protocol III),1 the Protocol on
Blinding Laser Weapons (Protocol IV) 4 and the Protocol on Explosive Remnants of
War (Protocol V), 5
Recalling with satisfaction also the results of the Fourth Review Conference of
the High Contracting Parties to the Convention, held in Geneva from 14 to
25 November 2011,
Noting the results of the 2015 Meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the
Convention, held in Geneva on 12 and 13 November 2015,
Welcoming the results of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Annual Conferences
of the High Contracting Parties to Amended Protocol II, held in Geneva on
11 November 2015 and 30 August 2016, respectively,
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1342, No. 22495.
Ibid., vol. 2260, No. 22495.
3
Ibid., vol. 2048, No. 22495.
4
Ibid., vol. 2024, No. 22495.
5
Ibid., vol. 2399, No. 22495.
2
16-21242 (E)
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