A/RES/53/128 Page 8 3. Notes that, without adequate human resources, the effectiveness of the Special Representative will continue to be severely constrained, calls upon the Secretary-General to ensure that the necessary support is made available expeditiously to the Special Representative for the effective performance of his mandate, encourages the United Nations Children’s Fund, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to provide support to the Special Representative, and calls upon States and other institutions to provide voluntary contributions to the Special Representative; 4. Calls upon the Special Representative and all relevant parts of the United Nations system to continue to develop a concerted approach to the rights, protection and welfare of children affected by armed conflict, in order to place this issue within the mainstream of United Nations policy-making and programme activities and to increase cooperation within their respective mandates, including, as appropriate, in the follow-up to the recommendations and field visits of the Special Representative; 5. Invites Governments, regional, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to continue to cooperate with the Special Representative, taking into account his recommendations, and, in this context, welcomes the initiative of the Special Representative for a series of regional symposia on children and armed conflict, the first of which was held in London in June 1998, with the others being planned for Tokyo and for cities in other regions; 6. Welcomes the information provided by the Special Representative in his report on field missions and country initiatives, calls upon Governments and other parties in the countries concerned to implement the commitments they have undertaken, and invites them to consider carefully and to address the recommendations of the Special Representative; 7. Invites the Special Representative to continue to include in his reports information on his field visits, including recommendations and, as appropriate, commitments obtained as well as follow-up to them; 8. Invites all States to accede to relevant international human rights and humanitarian law instruments, and urges them to implement those instruments to which they are parties; 9. Calls upon all States and other parties to armed conflict to respect international humanitarian law, and, in this regard, calls upon States parties to respect fully the provisions of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 194915 and the additional protocols thereto of 1977;16 10. Urges States and all other parties to armed conflict to adopt all necessary measures to end the use of children as soldiers and to ensure their demobilization and effective disarmament; 11. Calls upon States, United Nations bodies and agencies and other relevant humanitarian organizations to give priority to the respect for the rights of the child in complex humanitarian emergencies, in particular armed conflicts and post-conflict situations, and to integrate those rights into all humanitarian and development activities, including emergency relief operations, country programmes and field operations aimed at promoting peace, preventing and resolving conflicts and implementing peace agreements; 15 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, Nos. 970-973. 16 Ibid., vol. 1125, Nos. 17512 and 17513. /...