Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons : report of the Conference on Disarmament : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Reaffirms that effective measures should be taken to prevent the emergence of new types of weapons of mass destruction; requests the Conference on Disarmament to keep the matter under review with a view of making recommendations on undertaking specific negotiations on identified types of such weapons; calls upon all States, immediately following any recommendations of the Conference on Disarmament, to give favourable consideration to those recommendations; requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Conference on Disarmament all documents relating to the consideration of this item by the General Assembly at its 61st session; requests the Conference on Disarmament to report the results of any consideration of the matter in its annual reports of the General Assembly; decides to include in the provisional agenda of its 63rd session the item entitled "Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons: report of the Conference on Disarmament".

Adopted 180-1-1, 61st plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 60th sess., Suppl. no. 49.