Question of Chemical and Bacteriological (Biological) Weapons

A/RES/2662(XXV)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1971.

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7 documents · 1970–1972

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Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1972	A/RES/2827(XXVI)[B]	Question of chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons	—	–
1972	A/RES/2827(XXVI)A-B	Question of chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons	—	–
1972	A/RES/2827(XXVI)[A]	Question of chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons	—	–
1971	A/RES/2662(XXV)	Question of chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons	878	–
1970	A/RES/2603(XXIV)[B]	Question of chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons	—	–

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Biological Weapons Chemical and Biological Warfare Chemical Weapons

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Reaffirms its resolution 2162 B (XXI) of S December 1966 and calls anew for the strict observance by all States of the principles and objectives of the Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, signed at Geneva on 17 June 1925;

Invites all States that have not already done so to accede to or ratify the Geneva Protocol;

Takes note of:

The revised draft Convention for the Prohibition of Biological Methods of Warfare, 12 submitted on 18 August 1970 to the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland;

( b ) The revised draft Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Chemical and Bacteriological (Biological) Weae<?ns and on the Destruction of Such Weapons,18 submitted on 23 October 1970 to the General Assembly by Bulgaria, the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics;

8 Official Records of the Disarmament Commission, Suppkment for 1970, document DC/233.

9 United Nations publication, Sales No.: E.69.1.24.

10 World Health Organization (Geneva, 1970).

11 League of Nations, Treaty Series, vol. XCIV (1929), No. 2138.

12 Official Records of the Disarmament Commission, S~pp_kment for 1970, document DC/233, annex C, document CCD/ 255/Rev.2.

13 Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-fifth Session, Annexes, agenda items 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 93 and 9-4, document A/8136.

The working papers, expert views and sugptions put forward in the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament and in the First Committee;

Takes further note of the joint memorandum on the question of chemical and bacteriological (biological) methods of warfare,14 submitted on 25 August 1970 to the Conference of the Committee on Disannament by Argentina, Brazil, Burma, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sweden, the United Arab Republic and Yugoslavia;

Commends the following basic approach, contained in the joint memorandum, for reaching an effective solution to the problem of chemical and bacteriological (biological) methods of warfare:

It is urgent and- important to reach agreement on the problem of chemical and bacteriological (biological) methods of warfare;

{b) Both chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons should continue to be dealt with together in taking steps towards the prohibition of their development, production and stockpiling and their eff ec~ tive elimination from the arsenals of all States;

The issue of verification is important in the field of chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons, and verification should be based on a combination of appropriate national and international measures, which would complement and supplement each other, thereby providing an acceptable system that would ensure the effective implementation of the prohibition;

Requests the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament to continue its consideration of the problem of chemical and bacteriological (biological) methods of warfare, with a view to prohibiting urgently the development, production and stocki,iling of those weapons and to their elimination from the arsenals of all States;

Requests the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament to submit a report on the results achieved to the General Assembly at its twenty-sixth session;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament all documents and records of the First Committee relating to questions connected with the problem of chemical and bacteriological (biological) methods of warfare.

7 December 1970.

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