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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/53/26
31 December 1998
Fifty-third session
Agenda item 42
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/53/L.28 and Add.1)]
53/26. Assistance in mine action
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 48/7 of 19 October 1993, 49/215 of 23 December 1994, 50/82 of
14 December 1995, 51/149 of 13 December 1996 and 52/173 of 18 December 1997 on assistance in mine
clearance, all adopted without a vote,
Considering mine action 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
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