Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons

Reaffirms that effective measures should be taken to prevent the emergence of new types of weapons of mass destruction; requests the Conference on Disarmament, without prejudice to further overview of its agenda, to keep the matter under review, as appropriate, with a view to making, when necessary, recommendations on undertaking specific negotiations on identified types of such weapons; calls upon all States, immediately following any recommendations of the Conference on Disarmament, to give favourable consideration to those recommendations; requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Conference on Disarmament all documents relating to the consideration of this item by the General Assembly at its 54th session; requests the Conference on Disarmament to report the results of any consideration of the matter in its annual reports to the General Assembly.

Adopted without vote, 69th meeting

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Adopted at the 69th plenary meeting, 1 Dec. 1999.