Bilateral nuclear arms negotiations and nuclear disarmament
1998
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SymbolA/RES/53/77[Z]
TitleBilateral nuclear arms negotiations and nuclear disarmament
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Bilateral nuclear arms negotiations and nuclear disarmament
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Summary
Expresses its satisfaction at the reductions of strategic offensive arms being carried out in accordance with the 1991 Treaty as well as the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States to the 1993 Treaty in Jan. 1996, and expresses its hope that it will soon be possible for the Russian Federation to take corresponding steps to ratify that Treaty and for the United States Senate and the State Duma of the Russian Federation to approve the Protocol to the 1993 Treaty and other documents signed on 26 Sept. 1997, so that START II can enter into force; encourages Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, Ukraine and the United States to continue their cooperative efforts aimed at eliminating strategic offensive arms on the basis of existing agreements; welcomes the initiative signed by Presidents Yeltsin and Clinton on 2 Sept. 1998, contained in the joint statement on the exchange of information on missile launches and early warning; urges the Russian Federation and the United States to commence negotiations on a START III agreement immediately after ratification by the Russian Federation of START II, thereby fulfilling the commitments they undertook in the joint statement issued in Moscow on 2 Sept. 1998; invites the Russian Federation and the United States to keep other States Members of the UN duly informed of progress in their discussions and in the implementation of their strategic offensive arms agreements and unilateral decisions.
Action note1998-12-04
Vote summary
Adopted 166-0-8, 79th meeting
DraftA/C.1/53/L.49/Rev.1
Committee reportA/53/584
Meeting record
A/53/PV.79
Agenda information
A/53/251 71 General and complete disarmament. DISARMAMENT--GENERAL AND COMPLETE
A/53/251 71n Nuclear disarmament. NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
A/53/251 71n Nuclear disarmament. NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
Date1999-01-12
Notes
Adopted at the 79th plenary meeting, 4 Dec. 1998.
In: General and complete disarmament : resolutions / adopted by the General Assembly - A/RES/53/77 - 12 Jan. 1999 - p. 43-45.
In: General and complete disarmament : resolutions / adopted by the General Assembly - A/RES/53/77 - 12 Jan. 1999 - p. 43-45.