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Welcomes the commitment and efforts of the Commission for the Treaty on the South-East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone to further enhance and strengthen the implementation of the Bangkok Treaty by implementing the Plan of Action for the period 2007-2012, adopted in Manila on 29 July 2007, and the recent decision of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Political-Security Community Council, established under the Charter of the Association, to give priority to the implementation of the Plan of Action; encourages States parties to the Treaty to resume direct consultations with the five nuclear-weapon States; encourages nuclear-weapon States and States parties to the Treaty to work constructively with a view to ensuring the early accession of the nuclear-weapon States to the Protocol to the Treaty; underlines the value of enhancing and implementing further ways and means of cooperation among nuclear-weapon-free zones.

Adopted 174-0-6, 55th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 64th sess., Suppl. no. 49.