A/RES/65/197 I Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Optional Protocols thereto 1. Reaffirms paragraphs 1 to 8 of its resolution 63/241 of 24 December 2008, and urges States that have not yet done so to become parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child1 and the Optional Protocols thereto2 as a matter of priority and to implement them fully; Commemorates the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Optional 2. Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and the Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, welcomes the efforts of the Secretary-General to promote the universal ratification of the Optional Protocols, and takes this opportunity to call for the effective implementation of the Convention and the Optional Protocols by States parties to ensure that all children may fully enjoy all their human rights and fundamental freedoms; Calls upon States parties to withdraw reservations that are incompatible 3. with the object and purpose of the Convention or the Optional Protocols thereto and to consider reviewing regularly other reservations with a view to withdrawing them in accordance with the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action;6 4. Encourages States parties, in implementing the provisions of Convention and the Optional Protocols thereto, to take duly into account recommendations, observations and general comments of the Committee on Rights of the Child, including, inter alia, general comment No. 7 (2005) implementing child rights in early childhood; 24 the the the on 5. Welcomes actions of the Committee to monitor the implementation by States parties of the Convention, and notes with appreciation its actions to follow up on its concluding observations and recommendations, and in this regard underlines, in particular, the regional workshops and the participation of the Committee in national-level initiatives; Takes note of the process of the elaboration of an optional protocol to the 6. Convention on the Rights of the Child to provide a communication procedure complementary to the reporting procedure under the Convention on the Rights of the Child; II Promotion and protection of the rights of the child and non-discrimination against children Non-discrimination 7. Reaffirms paragraphs 9 to 11 of its resolution 63/241, and calls upon States to ensure the enjoyment by children of all their civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights without discrimination of any kind; _______________ 24 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 41 and corrigendum (A/61/41 and Corr.1), annex III. 4