A/RES/76/74
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 December 2021
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 51
Assistance in mine action
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 9 December 2021
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/76/413, para. 8)]
76/74.
Assistance in mine action
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 74/80 of 13 December 2019 and all its previous
resolutions on assistance in mine clearance and on assistance in mine action, all
adopted without a vote,
Recalling also all relevant treaties and conventions 1 and their review processes,
Noting with appreciation the extent to which the International Day for Mine
Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action has been commemorated worldwide,
Noting all relevant United Nations resolutions that take into account the
humanitarian aspects of assistance in mine action,
Reaffirming its deep concern at the tremendous humanitarian and development
impact of mines and explosive remnants of war, 2 in affected countries, which have
serious and lasting social and economic consequences for the civilian populations of
such countries, including refugees and other displaced persons returning to their
homes, as well as persons residing in conflict and post-conflict areas, and which
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These include the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer
of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, 1997; the Protocol on Prohibitions or
Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby Traps and Other Devices, as amended in 1996
(Protocol II to the 1980 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of C ertain
Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have
Indiscriminate Effects); the Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War, 2003 (Protocol V to the 1980
Convention); the Convention on Cluster Munitions, 2008; the Protocol Add itional to the Geneva
Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed
Conflicts 1977 (Protocol I); and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2006.
As defined by Protocol V to the 1980 Convention.
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