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2.
Requests the Conference on Disarmament, as a first step, to
consider the formulation of principles that can serve as a framework for
regional agreements on conventional arms control, and looks forward to a
report of the Conference on this subject;
3.
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-ninth
session an item entitled "Conventional arms control at the regional and
subregional levels".
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16 December 1993
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Moratorium on the export of anti-personnel land-mines
The General Assembly,
Noting that there are as many as 85 million uncleared land-mines
throughout the world, particularly in rural areas,
Expressing deep concern that such mines kill or maim hundreds of people
each week, mostly unarmed civilians, obstruct economic development and have
other severe consequences, which include inhibiting the repatriation of
refugees and the return of internally displaced persons,
Recalling with satisfaction its resolution 48/7 of 19 October 1993, by
which it, inter alia, requested the Secretary-General to submit a
comprehensive report on the problems caused by mines and other unexploded
devices,
Convinced that a moratorium by States exporting anti-personnel landmines that pose grave dangers to civilian populations would reduce
substantially the human and economic costs resulting from the use of such
devices and would complement the aforementioned initiative,
Noting with satisfaction that several States have already declared
moratoriums on the export, transfer or purchase of anti-personnel land-mines
and related devices,
1.
Calls upon States to agree to a moratorium on the export of
anti-personnel land-mines that pose grave dangers to civilian populations;
2.
Urges States to implement such a moratorium;
3.
Requests the Secretary-General to prepare a report concerning
progress on this initiative, including possible recommendations regarding
further appropriate measures to limit the export of anti-personnel land-mines,
and to submit it to the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session under the
item entitled "General and complete disarmament".
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16 December 1993
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