Nuclear disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Urges nuclear-weapon States to de-alert and deactivate immediately their nuclear weapons; calls upon them to agree on internationally and legally binding instrument on joint undertaking not to be first to use nuclear weapons; urges them to commence plurilateral negotiations among themselves on further deep reductions of nuclear weapons; calls for full and effective implementation of 13 steps for nuclear disarmament contained in the Final Document of the 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; urges nuclear-weapons states to carry out further reductions of non-strategic nuclear weapons; calls for immediate commencement of negotiations in the Conference on Disarmament on a treaty banning production of fissile material; urges Conference on Disarmament to agree on programme of work; calls for conclusion of international legal instrument on adequate security assurances to non-nuclear-weapons States; also calls for early entry into force and strict observance of Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty; calls for convening of international conference on nuclear disarmament in all its aspects at an early date to identify and deal with concrete measures of nuclear disarmament.

Adopted 117-43-21, 66th plenary meeting

5 p.

Issued in GAOR, 59th sess., Suppl. no. 49.