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Review Conference of the 1980 Weapons Convention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Nikolay Khlestov
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The United Nations General Assembly welcomed, in its resolution 48/79 of 16 December 1993, the request made to the organization's Secretary-General by a State party to the 1980 Weapons Convention (France) to convene a conference to review, in accordance with Article 8(3), the provisions of that Convention. In paragraph 6 of the same resolution, the General Assembly encouraged the States party to ask the Secretary-General to set up a group of government experts to prepare such a conference. The States did so and the group of experts that was subsequently brought together held three meetings in 1994 and one in 1995. Pursuant to a decision by the group, the Review Conference is to be held in Vienna from 25 September to 13 October 1995.

Type
Review Conference of the 1980 United Nations Conventions on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the use of Certain Conventional Weapons
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 35 , Issue 307 , August 1995 , pp. 368 - 374
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1995

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References

1 United Nations 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 (10 October 1980).

2 Although one would be hard put to name a “human” weapon, this diplomatic jargon is in common use at the United Nations.

3 See Sandoz, Yves, “A new step forward in international law — Prohibitions and restrictions on the use of certain conventional weapons”, International Review of the Red Cross (IRRC), No. 220, 01–02 1981, pp. 3–18.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 See Berman, Frank, “Ensuring compliance with the law of war; some policy considerations”, in 125th Anniversary of the 1868 Declaration of St. Petersburg, International Symposium on the Law of War, Tavrichevsky Palace, St Petersburg, 1–2 December 1993, Summary of the proceedings, ICRC, Geneva, 12 1994, p. 74.Google Scholar

5 By a presidential decree of 21 November 1994, Russia joined the present moratorium on the export of anti-personnel landmines which have no self-destruct mechanism and cannot be found by mine detectors. The moratorium came into force on 1 December 1994 for three years.

6 Statement by the ICRC to the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly on 20 October 1993, IRRC, No. 298, 01–02 1994, p. 59.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

7 124th Anniversary of the 1868 Declaration of St Petersburg, op. cit., p. 53.Google Scholar

8 See Pictet, Jean, “The formation of international humanitarian law”, IRRC, 11–12 1994, No. 303, p. 528.CrossRefGoogle Scholar