A/RES/53/96 Page 3 4. Calls upon all States parties to the additional Protocols to ensure their wide dissemination and full implementation; 5. Affirms the necessity of making the implementation of international humanitarian law more effective; 6. Welcomes the advisory service activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross in supporting efforts undertaken by Member States to take legislative and administrative action to implement international humanitarian law and in promoting the exchange of information on those efforts between Governments; 7. Welcomes also the holding in January 1998 of the first periodic meeting on the application of international humanitarian law; 8. Notes the holding in October 1998 of the meeting of experts on general problems of the implementation of the fourth Geneva Convention; 6 9. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth session a report on the status of the additional Protocols, as well as measures taken to strengthen the existing body of international humanitarian law, inter alia, with respect to its dissemination and full implementation at the national level, based on information received from Member States and the International Committee of the Red Cross; 10. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fifth session the item entitled “Status of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and relating to the protection of victims of armed conflicts”. 83rd plenary meeting 8 December 1998 6 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973.