Incendiary and Other Specific Conventional Weapons Which May Be the Subject of Prohibitions or Restrictions of Use for Humanitarian Reasons

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 38Incendiary and other specific conventional weapons which may be the subject of prohibitions or restrictions of use for humanitarian reasons, published in 1978.

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1977A/RES/31/64Incendiary and other specific conventional weapons which may be the subject of prohibitions or restrictions of use for humanitarian reasons

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Conferences Conventional Weapons Incendiary Weapons

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Relieves that the work on such weapons should both build upon the areas of common ground thus far identified and include the search for further areas of common ground and should in each case seek the broadest possible agreement;

Decides to convene in 1979 a United Nations conference with a view to reaching agreements on prohibitions or restrictions of the use of specific conventional weapons, including those which may be deemed to be excessively injurious or to have indiscriminate effects, taking into acc.ount humanitarian and military considerations, and on the question of a system of periodic review of this matter and for consideration of further proposals;

Decides to convene a United Nations preparatory confcrence for the conference referred to in paragraph 2 above and requests the Secretary-General to transmit invitations to all States and parties invited to attend the Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and Devclopment of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts;

46 For the report of the first session, see Conference of Government Experts on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons (lntemational Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, 1975).

4 7 For the report of the second session, see Conference of Government Experts on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons (International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, 1976).

4BA/9726, A/10222, A/31/146, A/32/124 ud Corr.l.

49 A/32/124, annex 11.

Recommends that the Preparatory Conference for the United Nations Conference on Prohibitions or Restrictions of Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively lnjurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects should meet once in 1978 for organizational purposes and, subsequently, with the task of establishing thc bcst possiblc substantive basis for the achievement at thc United Nations Conference of agreements as envisagcd in the present resolution and of considcring organizational matters relating to the holding of the United Nations Conference;

Requests the Secrctary-Gencral to assist the Preparatory Conference in its work;

Decides to includc in the provisional agenda of its thirty-third scssion an item entitled "United Nations Conferencc on Prohibitions or Restrictions of Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have lndiscriminate Effects: report of the Preparatory Conference".

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