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Emphasizing the desirability of attracting the adherence of all States
to this Convention,
and determined to work strenuously towards the promotion of its
universalization
in
all relevant fora including, inter alia, the United Nations, the
Conference
on Disarmament,
regional organizations, and groupings, and review conferences of the
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,
Basing themselves on the principle of international humanitarian law
that
the right of the
parties to an armed conflict to choose methods or means of warfare is
not
unlimited,
on the principle that prohibits the employment in armed conflicts of
weapons,
projectiles
and materials and methods of warfare of a nature to cause superfluous
injury
or
unnecessary suffering and on the principle that a distinction must be
made
between
civilians and combatants,
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ARTICLE-6: International cooperation and assistance [go to this ARTICLE]
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1. In fulfilling its obligations under this Convention each State Party
has
the right to seek and receive assistance, where feasible, from other
States
Parties to the extent possible.
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2. Each State Party undertakes to facilitate and shall have the right
to
participate in the fullest possible exchange of equipment, material and
scientific and technological information concerning the implementation
of this Convention. The States Parties shall not impose undue
restrictions
on the provision of mine clearance equipment and related technological
information for humanitarian purposes.
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ARTICLE-8: Facilitation and clarification of compliance [go to this ARTICLE]
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3. If the requesting State Party does not receive a response through
the
Secretary-General of the United Nations within that time period,
or deems
the response to the Request for Clarification to be unsatisfactory,
it
may submit
the matter through the Secr etary-General of the United Nations to the
next
Meeting of the States Parties. The Secretary-General of the
United
Nations shall
transmit the submission, accompanied by all appropriate
information
pertaining
to the Request for Clarification, to all States Parties. All such
information
shall
be presented to the requested State Party which shall have the right to
respond.
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b) The protection of any constitutional obligations the requested State
Party
may have with regard to proprietary rights, searches and seizures, or
other
constitutional rights; or
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b) The protection of any constitutional obligations the requested State
Party
may have with regard to proprietary rights, searches and seizures, or
other
constitutional rights; or
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ARTICLE-20: Duration and withdrawal [go to this ARTICLE]
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2. Each State Party shall, in exercising its national
sovereignty,
have
the right to withdraw from this Convention. It shall give notice of
such
withdrawal to all other States Parties, to the Depositary and to the
United
Nations Security Council. Such inst rument of withdrawal shall include
a full explanation of the reasons motivating this withdrawal.
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