Welcomes the positive developments in the bilateral negotiations between the USSR and the United States on disarmament issues, including those relating to the Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Stategic Offensive Arms, as well as the signing of the Protocols to the Treaty between the United States and the USSR on the Limitation of Underground Nuclear Weapon Tests, signed on 3 July 1974, and the Treaty between the United States and the USSR on Underground Nuclear Explosions for Peaceful Purposes, signed on 28 May 1976, and their ratification; calls upon the USSR and the United States to exert every effort to achieve the reduction in strategic offensive arms by signing the Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms by the end of 1990 as part of the process leading to the complete elimination of nuclear weapons and, as a matter of urgency, to intensify their efforts to achieve agreements in other areas, in particular, the issues of a comprehensive nuclear-test ban and agreement to ensure that outer space is kept free of all weapons; invites the USSR and the United States to keep other States Members of the UN duly informed of progress in their negotiations; encourages and supports the bilateral negotiations and expects them to be successfully concluded.

Adopted 131-0-22, 54th meeting

Adopted at the 54th plenary meeting, 4 Dec. 1990.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 45th session, Volume 1, 18 September-21 December 1990. - A/45/49. - 1991. - p. 62-70. - (GAOR, 45th sess., Suppl. no. 49).