Promotion of the right of peoples to peace : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Urges the international community to devote part of the resources made available by the implementation of disarmament and arms limitation agreements to economic and social development, with a view to reducing the ever-widening gap between developed and developing countries, and to promote the realization of all human rights for all; urges all States to refrain from using weapons with indiscriminate effects on human health, the environment and economic and social well-being; urges all States to refrain from taking measures which encourage the resurgence of a new arms race, bearing in mind all the resulting predictable consequences for global peace and security, for development and for the full realization of all human rights for all; decides to continue consideration of the question of the promotion of the right of peoples to peace at its 58th session, under the item entitled "Human rights questions".

Adopted 116-53-14, 77th plenary meeting

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