CONVENTION ON CERTAIN CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS (CCW) – LESOTHO STRENGTHENS ITS COMMITMENT TO THE CCW AND INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW

A long standing party to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), on 25 April 2016 Lesotho joined Protocol IV on Blinding Laser Weapons and Protocol V on Explosive Remnants of War. Lesotho also joined the amendment to Article 1 of the Convention, which ensures that the CCW and its instruments apply to both international and non-international armed conflicts.

Ambassador Tehmina Janjua of Pakistan, President-designate of the Convention’s 2016 Fifth Review Conference, welcomed Lesotho’s strengthened legal and political commitment to the CCW and its Protocols. “Lesotho’s decision is an important step towards universalization of the CCW,” she said.

The purpose of the Convention is to ban or restrict the use of specific types of weapons that are considered to cause unnecessary or unjustifiable suffering to combatants or to affect civilians indiscriminately. The Convention itself contains general provisions. All prohibitions or restrictions on the use of specific weapons or weapon systems are the object of the Protocols annexed to the Convention



For further information, please contact:
Bantan Nugroho
Head of the Implementation Support Unit (ISU) of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW)
United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, Geneva Branch
Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
e-mail: ccw@unog.ch



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