4. Notes the decision of the Meeting of the States Parties that the Working Group on Explosive Remnants of War would continue its work in 2004 with the mandate to continue to consider the implementation of existing principles of international humanitarian law and to further study, on an open-ended basis, and initially with particular emphasis on meetings of military and technical experts, possible preventive measures aimed at improving the design of certain specific types of munitions, including sub-munitions, with a view to minimizing the humanitarian risk of these munitions becoming explosive remnants of war;Ibid., para. 26 and appendix III.
4. 注意到缔约国会议决定，战争爆炸残留物问题工作组将在2004年继续工作，任务是继续审议现有国际人道主义法的执行问题，并以不限成员名额的方式，而且在初期可特别重视军事和技术专家会议，进一步研究是否可采取预防措施，改进包括次弹药在内的某些特定种类弹药的设计，以期最大限度地减少这些弹药成为战争爆炸残留物所造成的人道主义风险；同上，第26段和附录三。