A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/51/49 8 January 1997 Fifty-first session Agenda item 75 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the First Committee (A/51/566/Add.15)] 51/49. 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 resolution 50/74 of 12 December 1995 and previous resolutions referring 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,1 Recalling with satisfaction the adoption, on 10 October 1980, of the Convention, 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 which entered into force on 2 December 1983, Also recalling with satisfaction the adoption, on 13 October 1995, of the Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons (Protocol IV),2 Reaffirming its conviction that a general and verifiable agreement on prohibitions or restrictions on the use of certain conventional weapons would significantly reduce the suffering of civilians and combatants, 1 See The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, vol. 5: Nations publication, Sales No. E.81.IX.4), appendix VII. 2 1980 (United CCW/CONF.I/16 (Part I), annex A. 97-76075 /...