Urgent need for a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Urges that the following actions be taken in order that a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty may be concluded at an early date: (a) the Conference on Disarmament should intensify its consideration of item 1 of its agenda entitled "Nuclear-test ban" and initiate substantive work on all aspects of a nuclear-test-ban at the beginning of its 1989 session; (b) States members of the Conference on Disarmament and all other States should co-operate in order to facilitate and promote such work; (c) the nuclear-weapon States should agree promptly to appropriate verifiable and militarily significant interim measures, with a view to realizing a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty; (d) all nuclear-weapon States should adhere to the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and under Water; urges the Conference on Disarmament: (a) to take immediate steps for the establishment of an international seismic monitoring network with a view to the further development of its potential to monitor and verify compliance with a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty; (b) to take into account the progress achieved by the Ad Hoc Group of Scientific Experts to Consider International Co-operative Measures to Detect and Identify Seismic Events, including work on the routine exchange and use of wave-form data, and other relevant initiatives or experiments by individual States and groups of States; to initiate detailed investigation of other measures to monitor and verify compliance with such a treaty, including an international network to monitor atmospheric radioactivity.

Adopted 146-2-6, 73rd meeting

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Adopted at the 73rd plenary meeting, 7 Dec. 1988.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 43rd session, Volume 1, 20 September-22 December 1988. - A/43/49. - 1989. - p. 66-67. - (GAOR, 43rd sess., Suppl. no. 49).