Advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons

Underlines once again the unanimous conclusion of ICJ that there exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects under strict and effective international control; calls once again upon all States immediately to fulfil that obligation by commencing multilateral negotiations in 1998 leading to an early conclusion of a nuclear weapons convention prohibiting the development, production, testing, deployment, stockpiling, transfer, threat or use of nuclear weapons and providing for their elimination; requests all States to inform the Secretary-General of the efforts and measures they have taken on the implementation of the present resolution and nuclear disarmament, and requests the Secretary-General to apprise the General Assembly of that information at its 53rd session.

Adopted 116-26-24, 67th meeting

Adopted at the 67th plenary meeting, 9 Dec. 1997.
In: General and complete disarmament : resolutions / adopted by the General Assembly. - A/RES/52/38. - 8 Jan. 1998. - p. 23-24.