United Nations
A/RES/62/41
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 January 2008
Sixty-second session
Agenda item 98 (x)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 5 December 2007
[on the report of the First Committee (A/62/391)]
62/41.
Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the
Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel
Mines and on Their Destruction
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 54/54 B of 1 December 1999, 55/33 V of 20 November
2000, 56/24 M of 29 November 2001, 57/74 of 22 November 2002, 58/53 of 8 December
2003, 59/84 of 3 December 2004, 60/80 of 8 December 2005 and 61/84 of 6 December
2006,
Reaffirming its determination to put an end to the suffering and casualties caused by
anti-personnel mines, which kill or maim hundreds of people every week, mostly innocent
and defenceless civilians, including children, obstruct economic development and
reconstruction, inhibit the repatriation of refugees and internally displaced persons and
have other severe consequences for years after emplacement,
Believing it necessary to do the utmost to contribute in an efficient and coordinated
manner to facing the challenge of removing anti-personnel mines placed throughout the
world and to assure their destruction,
Wishing to do the utmost in ensuring assistance for the care and rehabilitation,
including the social and economic reintegration, of mine victims,
Recalling that 2007 marks the tenth anniversary of the adoption and opening for
signature of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and
Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, 1 and welcoming its entry into
force on 1 March 1999,
Noting with satisfaction the work undertaken to implement the Convention and the
substantial progress made towards ending, for all people and for all time, the suffering
caused by anti-personnel mines, as well as regular reporting of this progress,
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