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200 REPORT 5 Annex 1 AG/RES. 2226 (XXXVI-O/06) PROMOTION OF AND RESPECT FOR INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW (Adopted by the Plenary at its fourth session, held on June , 200 ) THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, RECALLING its resolutions AG/RES. 12 0 (XXIV-O/94), AG/RES. 1335 (XXV-O/95), 140 (XXVI-O/9 ), AG/RES. 1503 (XXVII-O/9 ), AG/ RES. 15 5 (XXVIII-O/9 ), AG/RES. 1 19 (XXIX-O/99), AG/RES. 1 0 (XXX-O/00), AG/RES. 1 0 (XXXI-O/01), AG/RES. 1 1 (XXXI-O/01), AG/RES. 1904 (XXXII-O/02), AG/RES. 1944 (XXXIII-O/03); AG/RES. 2052 (XXXIV-O/04); and AG/RES. 212 (XXXV-O/05); RECALLING ALSO that, under the Charter of the Organization of American States, and pursuant to all applicable provisions of international humanitarian law and international human rights law within their respective spheres of application, human rights and fundamental freedoms must always be respected, including in situations of armed conflict; DEEPLY CONCERNED about the persisting violations of international humanitarian law that cause suffering to all victims of armed conflict; RECALLING that it is the obligation of all member states, in all circumstances, to respect and ensure respect for the 1949 Geneva Conventions; RECALLING ALSO that 33 and 32 OAS member states, respectively, are parties to the 19 Additional Protocols I and II to the 1949 Geneva Conventions; CONSIDERING that international humanitarian law contains provisions that reflect customary international law that states must observe; WELCOMING the adoption on December , 2005, of the third Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, regarding approval of an additional emblem;
UNDERSCORING the need to strengthen the rules of international humanitarian law by means of their universal acceptance, their broader dissemination, and the adoption of national measures for their application; EMPHASIZING the obligation of states to punish all violations of international humanitarian law; RECOGNIZING the important contribution by the national committees or commissions on international humanitarian law that exist in various member states to the application and dissemination or the adoption, as the case may be, of national measures to implement international rules within internal legal systems; NOTING the holding of the First Meeting of States Parties to the 1999 Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, in Paris, on October 2 , 2005; EXPRESSING ITS SATISFACTION with the cooperation between the Organization of American States and the International Committee of the Red Cross with regard to promoting respect for international humanitarian law and the principles behind said law, one example of which was the holding of a special meeting of the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs on current topics in international humanitarian law, at OAS headquarters on February 2, 200 ; and taking note of the results of that meeting, contained in the rapporteur’s report (CP/CAJP-232 /0 ); TAKING INTO ACCOUNT that, in the Declaration of Mar del Plata, adopted in the framework of the Fourth Summit of the Americas, in November 2005, the Heads of State and Government recognized that “respect for international law, including international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and international refugee law are essential to the functioning of democratic societies”; RECALLING that the Third Review Conference of the States Parties to the 19 0 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Cer- 5 Annex
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