Amendment of the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and under Water : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Recommends that a preparatory committee, open to all parties to the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and under Water, should be established to make arrangements for the amendment conference and that such preparatory committee should meet at UN Headquarters from 29 May to 1 June 1990, followed by a 1-week session of the conference from 4 to 8 June 1990 and a 2nd substantive session from 7 to 18 Jan. 1991; recommends also that the costs of the amendment conference and its preparatory committee should be shared among the States parties to the Treaty, on the basis of the present scale of assessments of the UN; requests the Secretary-General to render the necessary assistance and provide such services, including summary records, as may be required for the amendment conference and its preparation; invites the amendment conference to transmit to the General Assembly the documents it deems appropriate to keep the Assembly duly informed of its ongoing work.

Adopted 127-2-22, 81st meeting

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Adopted at the 81st plenary meeting, 15 Dec. 1989.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 44th session, Volume 1, 19 September-29 December 1989. - A/44/49. - 1990. - p. 55-56. - (GAOR, 44th sess., Suppl. no. 49).