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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/49/48
17 February 1995
Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 134
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/49/735)]
49/48.
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 resolutions 32/44 of 8 December 1977, 34/51 of
23 November 1979, 37/116 of 16 December 1982, 39/77 of 13 December 1984, 41/72
of 3 December 1986, 43/161 of 9 December 1988, 45/38 of 28 November 1990 and
47/30 of 25 November 1992,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General 1/ on the status
of the Protocols 2/ Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 3/ and
relating to the protection of victims of armed conflicts,
Convinced of the continuing value of established humanitarian rules
relating to armed conflicts and the need to respect and ensure respect for
these rules in all circumstances within the scope of the relevant
international instruments, pending the earliest possible termination of such
conflicts,
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1/
A/49/255 and Add.1 and Corr.1.
2/
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513.
3/
Ibid., vol. 75, Nos. 970-973.
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