Notes with satisfaction that further progress has been made in the negotiations on the elaboration of a draft convention and urges the Conference on Disarmament to intensify further its work with a view to completing negotiations on a draft convention on the complete and effective prohibition of the development, production, and stockpiling of all chemical weapons and on their destruction; calls upon the Conference on Disarmament to intensify its work to further its mandate more earnestly through negotiations and to adopt concrete measures on the specific priority issues of disarmament on its agenda, in particular those relating to nuclear disarmament; urges the Conference on Disarmament to continue or to undertake, during its 1988 session, substantive negotiations on the priority questions of disarmament on its agenda; calls upon the Conference on Disarmament to provide the existing ad hoc committees with appropriate negotiating mandates and to establish, as a matter of urgency the ad hoc committees under item 1 of its agenda, entitled "Nuclear-test ban", on the cessation of the nuclear-arms race and nuclear disarmament and on the prevention of nuclear war; urges the Conference on Disarmament to undertake, without further delay, negotiations with a view to elaborating a draft treaty on a nuclear-test ban; requests the Conference on Disarmament to submit a special report on the status of its negotiations and its work to the General Assembly at its 3rd pecial session devoted to disarmament and to submit a report on its work to the General Assembly at its 43rd session.

Adopted 135-5-15, 84th meeting

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. 88-96. - (GAOR, 42nd sess., Suppl. no. 49).