United Nations A/RES/60/93 General Assembly Distr.: General 6 January 2006 Sixtieth session Agenda item 101 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 2005 [on the report of the First Committee (A/60/467)] 60/93. 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 59/107 of 3 December 2004, Recalling with satisfaction the adoption and the entry into force 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 and its amended article 1, 2 and 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 its amended version, 3 the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons (Protocol III)1 and the Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons (Protocol IV), 4 Recalling the decision of the Second Review Conference of the States Parties 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 to establish an open-ended group of governmental experts with two separate coordinators on explosive remnants of war and on mines other than anti-personnel mines,2 Recalling also the role played by the International Committee of the Red Cross in the elaboration of the Convention and the Protocols thereto, and welcoming the particular efforts of various international, non-governmental and other organizations in raising awareness of the humanitarian consequences of explosive remnants of war, Calls upon all States that have not yet done so to take all measures to 1. become parties, as soon as possible, to the Convention on Prohibitions or _______________ 1 See The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, vol. 5: 1980 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.81.IX.4), appendix VII. 2 See CCW/CONF.II/2 and Corr.1, part II. 3 CCW/CONF.I/16 (Part I), annex B. 4 Ibid., annex A. 05-49318