United Nations General Assembly A/RES/59/36 Distr.: General 16 December 2004 Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 140 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 2 December 2004 [on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/59/506)] 59/36. 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, 47/30 of 25 November 1992, 49/48 of 9 December 1994, 51/155 of 16 December 1996, 53/96 of 8 December 1998, 55/148 of 12 December 2000 and 57/14 of 19 November 2002, Having considered the report of the Secretary-General, 1 Thanking Member States and the International Committee of the Red Cross for their contribution to the report of the Secretary-General, Convinced of the continuing value of established humanitarian rules relating to armed conflicts and the need to respect and ensure respect for those rules in all circumstances within the scope of the relevant international instruments, pending the earliest possible termination of such conflicts, Stressing the possibility of making use of the International Fact-Finding Commission in relation to an armed conflict, pursuant to article 90 of Protocol I 2 to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, 3 Stressing also the possibility for the International Fact-Finding Commission to facilitate, through its good offices, the restoration of an attitude of respect for the Geneva Conventions and Protocol I, Stressing further the need to consolidate the existing body of international humanitarian law through its universal acceptance and the need for wide dissemination and full implementation of such law at the national level, and _______________ 1 A/59/321. United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1125, No. 17512. 3 Ibid., vol. 75, Nos. 970-973. 2 04-47842