Nuclear disarmament

Recognizes that the time is now opportune for all the nuclear-weapon States to take effective disarmament measures with a view to the elimination of these weapons; also recognizes that there is a genuine need to diminish the role of nuclear weapons in security policies to minimize the risk that these weapons will ever be used and to facilitate the process of their total elimination; urges the nuclear-weapon States to stop immediately the qualitative improvement, development, production and stockpiling of nuclear warheads and their delivery systems; also urges the nuclear-weapon States to de-alert and deactivate immediately their nuclear weapons and to take other concrete measures to reduce further the operational status of their nuclear weapon systems; calls upon the nuclear-weapon States to agree on an internationally and legally binding instrument on the joint undertaking not to be the first to use nuclear weapons; urges the nuclear-weapon States to commence plurilateral negotiations among themselves at an appropriate stage on further deep reductions of nuclear weapons as an effective measure of nuclear disarmament; urges the Conference on Disarmament to agree on a programme of work which includes the immediate commencement of negotiations on such a treaty with a view to their conclusion within 5 years; calls for the conclusion of an international legal instrument or instruments on adequate security assurances to non-nuclear-weapon States; calls also for the early entry into force and strict observance of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.

Adopted 109-39-20, 69th plenary meeting

In: General and complete disarmament : resolutions / adopted by the General Assembly - A/RES/55/33 - 12 Jan. 2001 - p. 32-35.