Urgent Need for a Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 51 Urgent need for a Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, published in 1986.

What other versions does this mandate have?

8 versions · 1983–1990

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 1990).

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1990	A/RES/45/51	Urgent need for a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty	1,137	—
1990	A/RES/44/107	Urgent need for a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty	—	—
1988	A/RES/43/64	Urgent need for a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty	—	—
1987	A/RES/42/27	Urgent need for a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty	—	—
1986	A/RES/41/47	Urgent need for a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty	—	—

What subjects does this mandate have?

9 subjects

Arms Race Members Nuclear Weapon Tests Nuclear Weapons Radiation Monitoring Seismic Monitoring Treaties Verification Work Organization

What’s in this document?

21 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms its conviction that a treaty to achieve the prohibition ofall nuclear-test explosions by all States in all environments for all time is a matter of greatest importance;

Expresses the conviction that such a treaty would constitute a vital element for the success of efforts to halt and reverse the nuclear-arms race and the qualitative improvement of nuclear weapons and to prevent the expansion of existing nuclear arsenals and the spread of nuclear weapons to additional countries;

Urges the Conference on Disarmament to establish at the beginning of its session in 1986 an ad hoe committee under item I of its agenda, entitled "Nuclear-test ban", to begin negotiations on a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty in accordance with the following programme of work:

Scope:

Comprehensive ban on nuclear explosions in all environments;

Question of nuclear explosions for peaceful purposes;

Verification:

Central importance of verification of a comprehensive test ban;

Factors affecting verification needs;

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Means for monitoring compliance:

National technical means:

b. International seismic monitoring network:

Determination of capabilities for monitoring compliance;

ii. Steps for establishment and improvement;

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Institutional, administrative and financial arrangements for establishment, testing and operation;

iv. Relationship to an effective verification system;

Other means, including an international atmospheric radioactivity monitoring network;

d. On-site inspection;

Specific verification problems and their solutions,

including:

Monitoring large land masses;

b. Methods of possible evasion;

Chemical explosions;

Compliance:

Procedures and mechanisms for consultation and co-operation;

Co-ordinating body, e.g. committee of experts;

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Consultative committee;

Series of actions triggered by suspicion or violation, including complaints procedures;

Further urges the Conference on Disarmament:

To take immediate steps for the establishment, with the widest possible participation, of an international seismic monitoring network to determine the capabilities of such a network for monitoring and verifying compliance with a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty, taking into account the work performed by the Ad Hoe Group of Scientific Experts to Consider International Co-operative Measures to Detect and Identify Seismic Events;

To initiate detailed investigation of other measures to monitor and verify compliance with such a treaty, including an international network to monitor atmospheric radioactivity;

Urges all members of the Conference on Disarmament, in particular the nuclear-weapon States, to co-operate within the Conference in fulfilling these tasks as called for, inter alia, in the Final Declaration of the Third Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons; 8 7.

Calls upon the Conference on Disarmament to report on progress to the General Assembly at its fortyfirst session;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-first session the item entitled "Urgent need for a comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty".

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