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

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 78 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, published in 2002.

What other versions does this mandate have?

41 versions · 1985–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/68

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/68	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	1,435	94%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/75	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	1,472	81%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/64	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	1,587	78%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/92	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	1,420	60%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/64	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	1,515	70%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

10 subjects

Armed Conflicts Conference and Meeting Services Conventional Weapons Disarmament Agreements Landmines Material Remnants of War Meeting Records Periodic Reports Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Small Arms

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

Calls upon all States that have not yet done so to take all measures to become parties, as soon as possible, 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 Effects1 and the Protocols thereto, in particular the amended Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby Traps and Other Devices (Protocol II),3 with a view to achieving the widest possible adherence to this instrument at an early date, and calls upon successor States to take appropriate measures so that ultimately adherence to these instruments will be universal;

Calls upon all States parties to the Convention that have not yet done so to express their consent to be bound by the Protocols to the Convention;

Welcomes the convening, on 10 December 2001, of the Third Annual Conference of States Parties to Amended Protocol II, in accordance with article 13 thereof, and calls upon all States parties to amended Protocol II to address at that meeting, inter alia, the question of holding the fourth annual conference in 2002;

Welcomes also the proposal contained in the Final Declaration of the Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention, adopted by consensus on 3 May 1996,⁶ that the next review conference consider the question of eventual further measures in relation to other conventional weapons which may be deemed to cause unnecessary suffering or to have indiscriminate effects;

⁶CCW/CONF.I/16 (Part I), annex C.

Notes, therefore, the proposals put forward by States parties and the International Committee of the Red Cross for consideration by the 2001 Review Conference, concerning, inter alia, the following issues:

Compliance procedures and mechanisms;

Explosive remnants of war;

Extension of the scope of application of the Convention and the Protocols thereto to non-international armed conflicts;

Landmines other than anti-personnel mines;

Small-calibre ammunitions;

Requests the Secretary-General to render the necessary assistance and to provide such services, including summary records, as may be required for the Second Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention as well as for any possible continuation of work after the Conference, should the States parties deem it appropriate;

Also requests the Secretary-General, in his capacity as depositary of the Convention and the Protocols thereto, to continue to inform the General Assembly periodically of ratifications and acceptances of and accessions to the Convention and the Protocols thereto;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session the item entitled “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”.

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