A/RES/48/153 Page 2 humanitarian law, including the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 7/ for the protection of victims of war and the Additional Protocols thereto, of 1977, 8/ as well as the principles and commitments undertaken by States members of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Gravely concerned at the human tragedy in the territories of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) and at the continuing massive and systematic violations of human rights occurring in most of those areas, particularly in the areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina under Bosnian Serb control, Bearing in mind its resolution 47/147 of 18 December 1992, Commission on Human Rights resolutions 1992/S-1/1 of 14 August 1992,9/ 1992/S-2/1 of 1 December 1992 10/ and 1993/7 of 23 February 1993 11/ and relevant resolutions of the Security Council, Recalling specifically Security Council resolutions 771 (1992) of 13 August 1992, 780 (1992) of 6 October 1992, 787 (1992) of 16 November 1992, 808 (1993) of 22 February 1993 and 827 (1993) of 25 May 1993 in which the Council demanded, inter alia, that all parties and others concerned in the former Yugoslavia immediately cease and desist from all breaches of international humanitarian law, requested the Secretary-General to establish a commission of experts to examine and analyse information relating to serious violations of such law being committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia, and decided to establish an international tribunal for the prosecution of persons responsible for such violations, Welcoming the convening of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 and the naming of its Chief Prosecutor, Welcoming also Security Council resolutions 824 (1993) of 6 May 1993 and 836 (1993) of 4 June 1993, in which the Council declared that Sarajevo, Tuzla, Zepa, Gorazde, Bihac, Srebrenica and their surroundings should be treated as safe areas and that international humanitarian agencies should be given free and unimpeded access to those areas, _____________ 7/ United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970-973. 8/ Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513. 9/ See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1992, Supplement No. 2A (E/1992/22/Add.1/Rev.1), chap. II. 10/ See E/1992/22/Add.2-E/CN.4/1992/84/Add.2. 11/ See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1993, Supplement No. 3 (E/1993/23), chap. II, sect. A. /...