4. Notes the decision of the Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention held on 12 and 13 December 2002See CCW/MSP/2002/2. that the Working Group on Explosive Remnants of War would continue its work in 2003 with the mandate to negotiate an instrument on post-conflict remedial measures of a generic nature that would reduce the risks of explosive remnants of war and to explore and determine whether these negotiations could successfully address preventive generic measures for improving the reliability of munitions and, separate from these negotiations, to continue to consider the implementation of existing principles of international humanitarian law and to further study, on an open-ended basis, 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. 21.
4. 注意到2002年12月12日和13日举行的《公约》缔约国会议决定，见CCW/MSP/2002/2。 战争爆炸残留物问题工作组将在2003年继续工作，任务是就一般性的冲突后补救措施谈判达成一项文书，以减少战争爆炸残留物的危险，探讨并确定这些谈判是否能够成功制定用于提高弹药可靠性的一般性预防措施，并在这些谈判之外，继续审议国际人道主义法现有原则的实施情况，并以不限成员名额的方式进一步研究是否可采取预防措施，改进包括弹药在内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21段。