Reaffirms its conviction that a treaty to achieve the prohibiton of all nuclear-test explosions by all States in all environments for all time is a matter of priority; urges all States to seek to achieve the early discontinuance of all nuclear-test explosions for all time; urges: (a) the nuclear-weapons States to agree promptly to appropriate verifiable and militarily significant interim measures; (b) those nuclear-weapon States which have not yet done so to adhere to the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and under Water; reaffirms the particular responsibilities of the Conference on Disarmament in the negotiation of a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty, and in this context urges the re-establishment of the Ad Hoc Committee on a Nuclear Test Ban in 1993; requests the Conference on Disarmament, in this context, to intensify its substantive work begun in 1990 on specific and interrelated test-ban issues; urges the Conference on Disarmament: (a) to take into account the progress achieved by the Ad Hoc Group of Scientific Experts to Consider International Cooperative Measures to Detect and Identify Siesmic Events.

Adopted 159-1-4, 81st meeting

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Adopted at the 81st plenary meeting, 9 Dec. 1992.