A/RES/62/99
United Nations
Distr.: General
10 January 2008
General Assembly
Sixty-second session
Agenda item 29
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 2007
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/62/401)]
62/99.
Assistance in mine action*
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 60/97 of 8 December 2005 and all its previous
resolutions on assistance in mine clearance and on assistance in mine action, all
adopted without a vote,
Recalling also all relevant treaties and conventions 1 and their review processes,
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Taking special note of the tenth anniversary of the creation of the United Nations
Mine Action Service within the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the
Secretariat, its designation as the focal point for mine action within the United
Nations system, and its ongoing collaboration with and coordination of all minerelated activities of United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, 2
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Noting with appreciation the extent to which the International Day for Mine
Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action has been commemorated worldwide,
Reaffirming its deep concern at the tremendous humanitarian and development
problems caused by the presence of mines and explosive remnants of war 3 that have
serious and lasting social and economic consequences for the populations of countries
affected by mines and explosive remnants of war,
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* As referred to in previous resolutions of the General Assembly on assistance in mine clearance and on
assistance in mine action.
1
These include the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of
Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, 1997; the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the
Use of Mines, Booby Traps and Other Devices, as amended in 1996 (Protocol II to the 1980 Convention
on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to Be
Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects); the Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War,
2003 (Protocol V to the 1980 Convention); the Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of
12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I),
1977; and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2006 (not yet in force).
2
See resolution 53/26, para. 9.
3
As defined by Protocol V to the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain
Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate
Effects.
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