The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East

Calls upon the only State in the region that is not party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons to accede to the Treaty without further delay and not to develop, produce, test or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons, and to renounce possession of nuclear weapons, and to place all its unsafeguarded nuclear facilities under full-scope IAEA safeguards as an important confidence-building measure among all States of the region and as a step towards enhancing peace and security; requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its 55th session on the implementation of the present resolution.

Adopted 149-3-9, 69th meeting

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