A/RES/71/34
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 December 2016
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 98 (p)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 5 December 2016
[on the report of the First Committee (A/71/450)]
71/34.
Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of
the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer
of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 54/54 B of 1 December 1999, 55/33 V of 20 November
2000, 56/24 M of 29 November 2001, 57/74 of 22 November 2002, 58/53 of
8 December 2003, 59/84 of 3 December 2004, 60/80 of 8 December 2005, 61/84 of
6 December 2006, 62/41 of 5 December 2007, 63/42 of 2 December 2008, 64/56 of
2 December 2009, 65/48 of 8 December 2010, 66/29 of 2 December 2011, 67/32 of
3 December 2012, 68/30 of 5 December 2013, 69/34 of 2 December 2014 and 70/55
of 7 December 2015,
Reaffirming its determination to put an end to the suffering and casualties
caused by anti-personnel mines, which kill or injure thousands of people — women,
girls, boys and men — every year, and which place people living in affected areas at
risk and hinder the development of their communities,
Believing it necessary to do the utmost to contribute in an efficient and
coordinated manner to facing the challenge of removing anti-personnel mines placed
throughout the world and to assure their destruction,
Wishing to do the utmost to ensure assistance for the care and rehabilitation,
including the social and economic reintegration, of mine victims,
Noting with satisfaction the work undertaken to implement the Convention on
the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti -Personnel
Mines and on Their Destruction 1 and the substantial progress made towards
addressing the global anti-personnel landmine problem,
Recalling the first to fourteenth meetings of the States parties to the Convention,
held in Maputo (1999), Geneva (2000), Managua (2001), Geneva (2002), Bangkok
(2003), Zagreb (2005), Geneva (2006), the Dead Sea (2007), Geneva ( 2008 and
2010), Phnom Penh (2011) and Geneva (2012, 2013 and 2015), and the First, Second
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