Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 57Conclusion of a treaty on the prohibition of the stationing of weapons of any kind in outer space, published in 1983.

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Arms Race Outer Space Treaties Working Groups

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21 operative paragraphs

Requests the Secretary-General to keep Israeli nu clear activities under constant review and to report thereon as appropriate;

Also requests the Secretary-General, in co-operation with the Organization of African Unity and the League of Arab States, to follow closely the nuclear and military col laboration between Israel and South Africa and the dangers it constitutes to peace and security and to efforts aimed at the establishment of nuclear-weapon-free zones in Africa and the Middle East;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-eighth session the item entitled "Israeli nuclear armament''.

37 /83. Prevention of an arms race in outer space

Reaffirms the will of all States that outer space shall be used exclusively for peaceful purposes and that it shall not become an arena for an arms race;

Declares that any use of outer space other than for exclusively peaceful purposes runs counter to the agreed objective of general and complete disarmament under ef fective international control;

Emphasizes that further effective measures to prevent an arms race in outer space should be adopted by the in ternational community;

Calls upon all States, in particular those with major 4. space capabilities, to contribute actively to the objective of the peaceful use of outer space and to take immediate meas ures to prevent an arms race in outer space;

Requests the Committee on Disarmament to consider as a matter of priority the question of preventing an arms race in outer space;

Further requests the Committee on Disarmament to establish an ad hoe working group on the subject at the beginning of its session in 1983. with a view to undertaking negotiations for the conclusion of an agreement or agree ments, as appropriate, to prevent an arms race in all its aspects in outer space;

Requests the Committee on Disarmament to report 7. on its consideration of this subject to the General Assembly at its thirty-eighth session;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Committee on Disarmament all documents relating to the consideration of this subject by the General Assembly at its thirty-seventh session;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-eighth session an item entitled '' Prevention of an arms race in outer space''.

37 /84. Relationship between disarmament and de velopment

Requests the Secretary-General to take appropriate administrative action in accordance with the recommenda tions of the Group of Governmental Experts on the Rela tionship between Disarmament and Development, as specified in chapter VII of the study entitled The Relation ship between Disarmament and Development;

Urges Member States to consider appropriate meas ures in accordance with all relevant recommendations of the Group of Governmental Experts;

Determines that the question of reallocation and con version of resources, through disarmament measures, from military to civilian purposes should be included in the pro visional agenda of the General Assembly at intervals to be decided upon, starting with its fortieth session, in I 985;

Recommends that an investigation-with due regard to the capabilities of existing agencies and institutions cur rently responsible for the international transfer of re sources--of the modalities of an international disarmament fund for development should be undertaken by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, in consultation with other relevant international institutions;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Gen eral Assembly at its thirty-eighth session on the measures taken in implementation of the present solution.

37/85. Immediate cessation and prohibition of nuclear weapon tests

Urges the Committee on Disarmament to proceed promptly to practical negotiations with a view to elaborating a draft treaty on the complete and general prohibition of nuclear-weapon tests;

Refers to the Committee on Disarmament, for its consideration, the basic provisions of such a treaty, sub mitted by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the text of which is annexed to the present resolution, as well as the proposals and observations made by other States on this question in the course of the current session;

Calls upon all the nuclear-weapon States, as a gesture of goodwill and with a view to creating more favourable conditions for the formulation of a treaty on the complete and general prohibition of nuclear-weapon tests, not to con duct any nuclear explosions, starting from a date to be agreed among them and until the above-mentioned treaty is concluded, after the appropriate declarations have been made by them to that effect well in advance;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-eighth session the item entitled "Immediate cessation and prohibition of nuclear-weapon tests".

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