A/RES/79/123
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
12 December 2024
Seventy-ninth session
Agenda item 81
Status of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva
Conventions of 1949 and relating to the protection of
victims of armed conflicts
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 4 December 2024
[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/79/471, para. 9)]
79/123.
Status of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of
1949 and relating to the protection of victims of armed conflicts
The General Assembly,
Recalling its biennial resolutions on the status of the Protocols Additional to the
Geneva Conventions of 1949 and relating to the protection of victims of armed
conflicts, including its resolution 77/107 of 7 December 2022,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General, 1
Reaffirming the continuing value of established humanitarian rules relating to
armed conflicts and the need to respect and ensure respect for those rules in all
circumstances within the scope of the relevant international instruments, pending the
earliest possible termination of such conflicts,
Stressing the need to consolidate the existing body of international humanitarian
law through its universal acceptance and the need for wide dissemination and full
implementation of such law at the national level, and expressing concern about all
violations of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 2 and the Additional Protocols, 3
Calling upon Member States to disseminate knowledge of international
humanitarian law as widely as possible, and calling upon all parties to armed conflict
to apply international humanitarian law,
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A/79/174.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
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Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513, and vol. 2404, No. 43425.
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