Report of the Disarmament Commission : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Recommends that the Disarmament Commission continue the consideration of the following items at its 2008 substantive session: (a) recommendations for achieving the objective of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons; (b) practical confidence-building measures in the field of conventional weapons; requests the Disarmament Commission to meet for a period not exceeding 3 weeks during 2008, namely from 7-24 Apr., and to submit a substantive report to the General Assembly at its 63rd sess.; requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Disarmament Commission the annual report of the Conference on Disarmament, together with all the official records of the 63rd sess. of the General Assembly relating to disarmament matters, and to render all assistance that the Commission may require for implementing the present resolution; also requests the Secretary-General to ensure full provision to the Disarmament Commission and its subsidiary bodies of interpretation and translation facilities in the official languages and to assign, as a matter of priority, all the necessary resources and services, including verbatim records, to that end; decides to include in the provisional agenda of its 63rd sess. the item entitled "Report of the Disarmament Commission".

Adopted without vote, 61st plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 62nd sess., Suppl. no. 49.