UN Security Council
2018

participation and full involvement in all efforts for the maintenance and promotion of peace and security, and the need to increase their role in decision -making with regard to conflict prevention and resolution, Recalling the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977, and the obligation of High Contracting Parties and parties to armed conflict to respect and ensure respect for international humanitarian law in all circumstance s, Underlining that using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare may constitute a war crime, Stressing that responding effectively to humanitarian needs in armed conflict, including the threat of conflict-induced famine and food insecurity in situations of armed conflict, requires respect for international humanitarian law by all parties to conflict, underlining the parties’ obligations related to protecting civilians and civilian objects, meeting the basic needs of the civilian population withi n their territory or under their effective control, and allowing and facilitating the rapid and unimpeded passage of impartial humanitarian relief to all those in need, Recalling its intention to mandate United Nations peacekeeping and other