Welcomes the decision taken by the Conference on Disarmament on 10 Aug. 1993 to give its Ad Hoc Committee on a Nuclear Test Ban a mandate to negotiate a universal and internationally and effectively verifiable comprehensive test ban treaty, and fully endorses the contents of that decision; calls on participants in the Conference on Disarmament to approach the inter-sessional consultations mandated by that decision in a positive and constructive light; urges the Conference on Disarmament at the commencement of its 1994 session to re-establish, with an appropriate negotiating mandate, the Ad Hoc Committee on item 1 of its agenda, entitled "Nuclear test ban"; calls on all States to support the multilateral negotiations in the Conference on Disarmament for a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty; urges the Conference on Disarmament to proceed intensively, as a priority task, in its negotiation of such a universal and internationally and effectively verifiable treaty; requests the Secretary-General to ensure the provision to the Conference on Disarmament of additional administrative, substantive and conference support services for these negotiations.

Adopted without vote, 81st meeting

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Adopted at the 81st plenary meeting, 16 Dec. 1993.