A/RES/73/204
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
9 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 83
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2018
[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/73/555)]
73/204.
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 biennial resolutions on the status of the Protocols Additional to the
Geneva Conventions of 1949 and relating to the protection of victims of armed
conflicts, including its resolution 71/144 of 13 December 2016,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General, 1
Reaffirming 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 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 expressi ng concern about all
violations of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 2 and the Additional Protocols, 3
Calling upon Member States to disseminate knowledge of international
humanitarian law as widely as possible, and calling upon all parties to armed conflict
to apply international humanitarian law,
Noting with satisfaction the increasing number of national commissions and
other bodies involved in advising authorities at the national level on the
implementation, dissemination and development of international hu manitarian law,
Noting with appreciation the meetings of representatives of those bodies
organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross, together with relevant
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A/73/277.
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970–973.
Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513, and vol. 2404, No. 43425.
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