Urgent need for a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Urges that the following actions be taken in order that a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty may be concluded at an early date: (a) the Conference on Disarmament should initiate substantive work on all aspects of a nuclear-test-ban treaty at the beginning of its 1988 session; (b) States members of the Conference on Disarmament should co-operate in order to facilitate and promote such work; (c) the nuclear-weapon States should agree to appropriate verifiable interim measures with a view to realizing a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty; (d) those nuclear-weapon States which have not yet done so should adhere to the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and under Water; also urges the Conference on Disarmament: to take immediate steps for the establishment of an international seismic monitoring network with a view to the further development of its potential to monitor and verify compliance with a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty.

Adopted 143-2-8, 84th meeting

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Adopted at the 84th plenary meeting, 30 Nov. 1987.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 42nd session, Volume 1, 15 September-21 December 1987. - A/42/49. - 1988. - p. 62-63. - (GAOR, 42nd sess., Suppl. no. 49).