Security Council resolution 1172 (1998) [on nuclear tests conducted by India on 11 and 13 May 1998 and by Pakistan on 28 and 30 May 1998]
[Nuclear tests conducted by India and Pakistan]

Condemns the nuclear tests conducted by India on 11 and 13 May 1998 and by Pakistan on 28 and 30 May 1998; endorses the Joint Communiqué issued by the Foreign Ministers of China, France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States at their meeting in Geneva on 4 June 1998 (S/1998/473); demands that India and Pakistan refrain from further nuclear test; urges India and Pakistan to resume the dialogue between them on all outstanding issues in order to remove the tensions between them, and encourages them to find mutually acceptable solutions that address the root causes of those tensions, including Kashmir; calls upon India and Pakistan immediately to stop their nuclear weapon development programmes, to refrain from weaponization or from the deployment of nuclear weapons, to cease development of ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons and any further production of fissile material for nuclear weapons, to confirm their policies not to export equipment, materials or technology that could contribute to weapons of mass destruction or missiles capable of delivering them and to undertake appropriate commitments in that regard; encourages all States to prevent the export of equipment, materials or technology that could in any way assist programmes in India or Pakistan for nuclear weapons or for ballistic missiles capable of delivering such weapons, and welcomes national policies adopted and declared in this respect.

Adopted unanimously, 3890th meeting

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Concerns nuclear tests conducted by India on 11 and 13 May 1998 and by Pakistan on 28 and 30 May 1998.