Comprehensive system of international peace and security : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Urges all States to focus their efforts on ensuring integral universal security through peaceful political means on an equal basis and in all spheres of international relations; calls upon all States to multiply their efforts in order to prevent an arms race in outer space and to halt and reverse it on Earth, to lower the level of military confrontation and to enhance global stability; calls upon States and UN organs to utilize fully the existing means of peaceful settlement of international disputes and conflicts through negotiations, inquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement, resort to regional agencies or arrangements, the use of good offices, including those of the Secretary-General, or other means of their own free choice; calls upon all States and the appropriate economic forum to use to the maximum extent all opportunities for promoting a stable and equitable world economic environment, and to co-operate broadly with each other in the humanitarian field; calls upon Member States to strengthen and enhance the role and efficiency of the UN System as an indispensable instrument for the maintenance of international peace and security.

Adopted 76-12-63, 93rd meeting

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Adopted at the 93rd plenary meeting, 7 Dec. 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. 102-103. - (GAOR, 42nd sess., Suppl. no. 49).