A/RES/60/42 protection of United Nations and associated personnel during the sixtieth session of the General Assembly, Underlining the need to promote the universality of the Convention and thereby strengthen the safety and security of United Nations and associated personnel, Encouraging States to enact national legislation, as necessary, in order to enable the implementation of the Convention and the Protocol, 1. Adopts, therefore, the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel, which is contained in the annex to the present resolution, and requests the Secretary-General as depositary to open it for signature; Invites States to become parties to the Optional Protocol to the 2. Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel. 61st plenary meeting 8 December 2005 Annex Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel The States Parties to this Protocol, Recalling the terms of the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel, done at New York on 9 December 1994, Deeply concerned over the continuing pattern of attacks against United Nations and associated personnel, Recognizing that United Nations operations conducted for the purposes of delivering humanitarian, political or development assistance in peacebuilding and of delivering emergency humanitarian assistance which entail particular risks for United Nations and associated personnel require the extension of the scope of legal protection under the Convention to such personnel, Convinced of the need to have in place an effective regime to ensure that the perpetrators of attacks against United Nations and associated personnel engaged in United Nations operations are brought to justice, Have agreed as follows: Article I Relationship This Protocol supplements the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel, done at New York on 9 December 1994 (hereinafter referred to as “the Convention”), and as between the Parties to this Protocol, the Convention and the Protocol shall be read and interpreted together as a single instrument. Article II Application of the Convention to United Nations operations 1. The Parties to this Protocol shall, in addition to those operations as defined in article 1 (c) of the Convention, apply the Convention in respect of all other United 2