Report of the Disarmament Commission

Reaffirms the importance of further enhancing the dialogue and cooperation among the 1st Committee, the Disarmament Commission and the Conference on Disarmament; also reaffirms the role of the Disarmament Commission as the specialized, deliberative body within the UN multilateral disarmament machinary that allows for in-depth deliberations on specific disarmament issues, leading to the submission of concrete recommendations on those issues; encourages the Commission to continue to make every effort to enhance its working methods so as to enable it to give focused consideration to a limited number of priority issues in the field of disarmament, bearing in mind the decision it has taken to move its agenda towards a 3-item phased approach; requests the Commission to make every effort to achieve specific recommendations on the items of its agenda, taking into account the adopted "Ways and means to enhance the functioning of the Disarmament Commission"; requests the Commission to meet for a period not exceeding 4 weeks during 1998 and to submit a substantive report to the General Assembly at its 53rd session; requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Commission the annual report of the Conference on Disarmament, together with all the official records of the 52nd session of the General Assembly relating to disarmament matters, and to render all assistance that the Commission may require for implementing the present resolution; also requests the Secretary-General to ensure full provision to the Disarmament Commission and its subsidiary bodies of interpretation and translation facilities in the official languages and to assign, as a matter of priority, all the necessary resources and services, including verbatim records, to that end.

Adopted without vote, 67th meeting

Adopted at the 67th plenary meeting, 9 Dec. 1997.