Noting that international humanitarian law has been an important topic in the United Nations Decade for International Law, which came to an end in 1999, fifty years after the adoption of the Geneva Conventions, and acknowledging the usefulness of discussing in the General Assembly the status of international humanitarian law instruments relevant to the protection of victims of armed conflicts,
注意到国际人道主义法是于1999年即日内瓦四公约通过五十年后结束的联合国国际法十年的一个重要专题，并认识到大会讨论与保护武装冲突受难者有关的国际人道主义法文书的现况是有助益的，