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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/48/79
7 January 1994
Forty-eighth session
Agenda item 75
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the First Committee (A/48/680)]
48/79.
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 General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 32/152 of 19 December 1977, 35/153 of 12
December 1980, 36/93 of 9 December 1981, 37/79 of 9 December 1982, 38/66 of 15
December 1983, 39/56 of 12 December 1984, 40/84 of 12 December 1985, 41/50 of
3 December 1986, 42/30 of 30 November 1987, 43/67 of 7 December 1988, 45/64 of
4 December 1990, 46/40 of 6 December 1991 and 47/56 of 9 December 1992,
Recalling with satisfaction the adoption, on 10 October 1980, of 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, 1/ together with the Protocol on Non-Detectable
Fragments (Protocol I), 1/ the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the
Use of Mines, Booby Traps and Other Devices (Protocol II) 1/ and the Protocol
on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons (Protocol
III), 1/
Recalling the role played by the International Committee of the Red
Cross in the elaboration of the Convention and the Protocols annexed thereto,
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1/
See The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, vol. 5:
Nations publication, Sales No. E.81.IX.4), appendix VII.
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