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Chemical and Bacteriological (Biological) Weapons

A/RES/32/77No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 39Chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons, published in 1978.

What else is in this group?

54 documents · 1973–1991
Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 1991).
  • 1991A/RES/46/35[C]Chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons resolutionsCompare with earlier document
  • 1991A/RES/46/35[B]Chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons resolutionsCompare with earlier document
  • 1991A/RES/46/35[A]Chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons resolutionsCompare with earlier document
  • 1991A/RES/46/35Chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons resolutionsCompare with earlier document
  • 1991A/RES/45/57[C]Chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons resolutionsCompare with earlier document

This group bundles related documents that are not individually ordered.

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What subjects does this mandate have?

4 topics
Biological WeaponsChemical and Biological WarfareChemical WeaponsTreaties

What does this mandate say?

5 operative paragraphs
1
Urges all States to reach early agreement on the effective prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of all chemical weapons and on their destruction;
2
Requests the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament to continue negotiations and, as a matter of high priority, to undertake the elaboration of an agreement on effective measures for the prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of all chemical weapons and for their destruction, taking into account all existing proposals and future initiatives submitted for its consideration;
3
Invites all States that have not yet done so to accede to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction, as well as to accede to or ratify 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, and calls again for the strict observance by all States of the principles and objectives of those instruments;
4
Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament all documents of the thirty-second session of the General Assembly relating to chemical weapons and to chemical means of warfare;
5
Requests the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament to report on the results of its negotiations to the General Assembly at its special session devoted to disarmament, to be held in May and June 1978, and at its thirty-third session.

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