Review of the Implementation of the Recommendations and Decisions Adopted by the General Assembly at Its 10th Special Session Resolutions

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 62Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its 10th special session, published in 1987.

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Calls upon the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Government of the United States of America to spare no effort in seeking the attain ment of their agreed objectives in the negotiations, in ac cordance with the security interests of all States and the universal desire for progress towards disarmament;

Urges the two Governments to make early progress,

in particular in areas where there is common ground;

Expresses its firmest possible encouragement and support for the bilateral negotiations and their successful conclusion.

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Expresses the hope that those nuclear-weapon States that have not yet done so would consider making similar declarations with respect to not being the first to use nu clear weapons;

Requests the Conference on Disarmament to con 3. sider under its relevant agenda item, inter alia, the elabo ration of an international instrument of a legally binding character laying down the obligation not to be the first to use nuclear weapons;

forty-second session the item entitled "Non-use of nuclear weapons and prevention of nuclear war".

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Reaffirms the value of United Nations disarmament studies and the need for a thorough appraisal of the sub ject;

Takes note with appreciation of the views of Member States contained in the report of the Secretary-General;84

Invites those Member States that have not yet done so to communicate to the Secretary-General, by 1 April 1987, their views and proposals on how the work of the United Nations in the field of disarmament studies can be

further improved;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit the re plies received in 1987 to the Advisory Board on Disarma ment Studies and to the General Assembly at its forty second session;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-second session the item entitled "United Nations disarmament studies".

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Takes note with satisfaction of the report of the Sec retary-GeneraJ87 on the follow-up measures undertaken by governmental and non-governmental organizations in holding Disarmament Week;

Expresses its appreciation to all States and interna tional and national governmental and non-governmental organizations for their energetic support of and active par ticipation in Disarmament Week, in particular in holding the 1986 Disarmament Week in close connection with the celebration of the International Year of Peace;

Expresses serious concern over the continued escala tion of the arms race, especially the nuclear-arms race, and the imminent danger of its extension into outer space, which gravely jeopardizes international peace and security and increases the danger of outbreak of a nuclear war;

Stresses the important role of the mass media in ac quainting the world public with the aims of Disarmament Week and measures undertaken within its framework;

Invites all States, in carrying out appropriate mea sures at the local level on the occasion of Disarmament Week, to take into account the elements of the model pro gramme for Disarmament Week, prepared by the Secre tary-General;88

Invites the relevant specialized agencies and the In ternational Atomic Energy Agency to intensify activities, within their areas of competence, to disseminate informa tion on the consequences of the arms race, especially the nuclear-arms race, and requests them to inform the Secre tary-General accordingly;

Also invites international non-governmental organi zations to take an active part in Disarmament Week and to inform the Secretary-General of the activities under taken;

Further invites the Secretary-General to use the United Nations mass media as widely as possible to pro mote better understanding among the world public of disarmament problems and the objectives of Disarmament Week;

Requests Governments to continue, in accordance with resolution 33/71 D, to inform the Secretary-General of activities undertaken to promote the objectives of Disarmament Week;

Requests the Secretary-General, in accordance with paragraph 4 of resolution 33/71 D, to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-second session a report on the implementation of the provisions of the present resolu tion.

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Takes note of the report of the Disarmament Com mission;30 2.

Notes that the Disarmament Commission has yet to conclude its consideration of some items on its agenda, but notes also with appreciation that the Commission has transmitted to the General Assembly for consideration draft guidelines for the appropriate type of confidence building measures and for the implementation of such measures on a global or regional level, and that progress has also been achieved on other items; 3.

Recalls the role of the Disarmament Commission as the specialized, deliberative body within the United Na tions multilateral disarmament machinery that allows for in-depth deliberations on specific disarmament issues, leading to the submission of concrete recommendations on those issues;

Stresses the importance for the Disarmament Com mission to work on the basis of a relevant agenda of disar mament topics, thereby enabling the Commission to con centrate its efforts and thus optimize its progress on specific subjects in accordance with resolution 37 /7 8 H;

Requests the Disarmament Commission to continue its work in accordance with its mandate, as set forth in paragraph 118 of the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly,9 and with paragraph 3 of resolution 3 7 /7 8 H, and to that end to make every effort to achieve specific recommendations, at its 1987 substan tive session, on the outstanding items on its agenda, taking into account the relevant resolutions of the General As sembly as well as the results of its 1986 substantive session; 6.

Requests the Disarmament Commission to meet for a period not exceeding four weeks during 1987 and to sub mit a substantive report, containing specific recommenda tions on the items included in its agenda, to the General Assembly at its forty-second session; 7.

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Disarmament Commission the report of the Conference on Disarmament,42 together with all the official records of the forty-first session of the General Assembly relating to disarmament matters, and to render all assistance that the Commission may require for implementing the present resolution; 8.

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-second session the item entitled "Report of the Disarmament Commission".

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Affirms that the existence of bilateral negotiations on nuclear and space arms in no way diminishes the ur gent need to initiate multilateral negotiations in the Con ference on Disarmament on the cessation of the nuclear arms race and nuclear disarmament;

Believes that efforts should be intensified with a view to initiating, as a matter of the highest priority, multilat eral negotiations in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 50 of the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly;9 3.

Again requests the Conference on Disarmament to establish an ad hoc committee at the beginning of its 1987 session to elaborate on paragraph 50 of the Final Docu ment and to submit recommendations to the Conference as to how it could best initiate multilateral negotiations of agreements, with adequate measures of verification, in ap propriate stages for:

Cessation of the qualitative improvement and de velopment of nuclear-weapon systems;

Cessation of the production of all types of nuclear weapons and their means of delivery and of the production of fissionable material for weapons purposes;

Substantial reduction in existing nuclear weapons with a view to their ultimate elimination;

Requests the Conference on Disarmament to report to the General Assembly at its forty-second session on its consideration of this subject;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-second session the item entitled "Cessation of the nuclear-arms race and nuclear disarmament".

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Reiterates its conviction that, in view of the urgency of this matter and the inadequacy or insufficiency of exist ing measures, it is necessary to devise suitable steps to expedite effective action for the prevention of nuclear war;

Again requests the Conference on Disarmament to undertake, as a matter of the highest priority, negotiations with a view to achieving agreement on appropriate and practical measures which could be negotiated and adopted individually for the prevention of nuclear war and to es tablish for that purpose an ad hoc committee on the sub ject at the beginning of its 1 987 session;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-second session the item entitled "Prevention of nu clear war".

H

Once again requests the Secretary-General, with the assistance of the Group of Consultant Experts chosen by him, bearing in mind the advisability of wide geographical representation and of their qualifications in a broad range of scientific fields, to carry out a study on the climatic and potential physical effects of nuclear war, including nuclear winter, which will examine, inter alia, its socio-economic consequences and would take into account the report of the Secretary-General and the source documents from which the compilation was prepared, together with any other relevant scientific studies;

Also requests the Secretary-General to transmit the study to the General Assembly in due time for considera tion at its forty-third session, in 1988;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-third session the item entitled "Climatic effects of nuclear war, including nuclear winter: report of the Secre tary-General".

Requests the Secretary-General to submit the up dated report to the General Assembly at its forty-third ses sion and to inform the Assembly at its forty-second session on the progress achieved in implementation of the present resolution.

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Reiterates once more the right of all States not mem 1. bers of the Conference on Disarmament to participate in the work of the plenary sessions of the Conference on suh stantive questions;

Urges States members of the Conference on Disar mament not to misuse the rules of procedure of the Con ference so as to prevent States not members from exercis ing their right to participate in the work of the Conference:

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the 3. General Assembly at its forty-second session on the pro gress made in the implementation of the present resolu tion.

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Invites all States to increase co-operation and to 1 . strive actively for meaningful disarmament negotiations on the basis of reciprocity, equality, undiminished security and the non-use of force in international relations, so that they may prevent qualitative enhancement and quantita tive accumulation of weapons, as well as the development of new types and systems of weaponry, especially weapons of mass destruction;

Stresses the importance of strengthening the effec 2. tiveness of the United Nations in fulfilling its central role and primary responsibility in the sphere of disarmament:

Emphasizes the necessity of refraining from the dis semination of any doctrines and concepts endangering in ternational peace and justifying the unleashing of nuclear war, which lead to the deterioration of the international situation and to the further intensification of the arms race and which are detrimental to the generally recognized necessity of international co-operation for disarmament;

Declares that the use of force in international rela tions as well as in attempts to prevent the full implementa tion of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples97 constitutes a phe nomenon incompatible with the ideas of international co operation for disarmament;

Reiterates its profound conviction that outer space should be excluded from the sphere of military prepara tions and used exclusively for peaceful purposes, for the benefit of all mankind;

Appeals to States that are members of military groupings to promote, on the basis of the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly and in the spirit of international co-operation for disarma ment, the gradual mutual limitation of military activities of these groupings, thus creating conditions for their dis solution;

Calls upon all Member States and the international organizations concerned to continue to cultivate and dis seminate, particularly in connection with the World Disarmament Campaign launched by the General Assem bly at its twelfth special session, the ideas of international co-operation for disarmament;

Calls upon the Governments of all States to contrib 8. ute substantially, while observing the principle of undi minished security, to halting and reversing the arms race, particularly in the nuclear field, and thus to reducing the danger of nuclear war.

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Welcomes the adoption by the Conference on Confi dence- and Security-building Measures and Disarmament in Europe of the Document of the Stockholm Conference, which contains concrete, militarily significant, politically binding and verifiable confidence- and security-building measures;

Considers that the Document of the Stockholm 2. Conference will contribute to furthering the process of im proving security and developing co-operation in Europe, thereby contributing to international peace and security in the world as a whole.

M

Calls upon the Conference on Disarmament to in tensify its work, to further its mandate more earnestly through negotiations and to adopt concrete measures on the specific priority issues of disarmament on its agenda, in particular those relating to nuclear disarmament;

Once again urges the Conference on Disarmament to continue or to undertake, during its 1987 session, sub stantive negotiations on the priority questions of disarma ment on its agenda, in accordance with the provisions of the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly and other resolutions of the Assembly on those questions;

Calls upon the Conference on Disarmament to pro vide the existing ad hoc committees with appropriate negotiating mandates and to establish, as a matter of ur gency, the ad hoc committees under item l of its agenda, entitled "Nuclear-test ban", on the cessation of the nu clear-arms race and nuclear disarmament and on the pre vention of nuclear war;

Urges the Conference on Disarmament to under 5. take, without further delay, negotiations with a view to elaborating a draft treaty on a nuclear-test ban;

Also urges the Conference on Disarmament to inten sify further its work with a view to completing negotia tions on a draft convention on the complete and effective prohibition of the development, production and stockpil ing of all chemical weapons and on their destruction;

Requests the Conference on Disarmament to submit a report on its work to the General Assembly at its forty second session;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-second session the item entitled "Report of the Con ference on Disarmament".

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Appeals to the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Government of the United States of America to conduct, pursuant to their special ob ligations and responsibilities as leading nuclear-weapon States, their bilateral negotiations with the greatest resolve with a view to achieving agreements on concrete and effec tive measures for the halting of the nuclear-arms race, radical reduction of their nuclear arsenals, nuclear disar mament and the prevention of an arms race in outer space;

Invites the two negotiating parties to keep the Gen eral Assembly duly informed of the progress of their ne gotiations.

The General Assembly,

Having reviewed the implementation of the recommen dations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special session,9 the first special session devoted to disarmament, as well as the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly,74 the second special session devoted to disarmament,

Recalling its resolutions S-10/ 2 of 30 June 1978, 34/ 83 C of 11 December 1979, 35/ 46 of 3 December 19 80, 35/1 52 E of 1 2 December 19 80, 36/92 M of9 December 19 81, 37/ 78 F of 9 December 1982, 38/1 83 H of 20 December 19 83, 39/1 48 0 of 1 7 December 19 84 and 40/1 52 N of 1 6 December 1985 and its decision S-1 2/ 24 of 10 July 19 82,

Deeply concerned that no concrete results regarding the implementation of the recommendations and decisions of the tenth special session have been realized in the course of more than eight years since that session, that in the mean time the arms race, particularly in its nuclear aspect, has gained in intensity, that there has been further deployment of nuclear weapons in some parts of the world, that annual global military expenditures are estimated to have reached the staggering figure of $1 ,000 billion, that mankind is faced with a real danger of spreading the arms race into outer space, that urgent measures to prevent nuclear war and for disarmament have not been adopted and that con tinued colonial domination and foreign occupation, open threats, pressures and military intervention against inde pendent States and violations of the fundamental princi ples of the Charter of the United Nations have taken place, posing the most serious threat to international peace and security,

Convinced that the escalation of the nuclear-arms race, in both the quantitative and qualitative dimensions, has heightened the risk of the outbreak of nuclear war and led to greater insecurity and instability in international rela tions,

Further convinced that international peace and security can be ensured only through general and complete disar mament under effective international control and that one of the most urgent tasks is to halt and reverse the arms race and to undertake concrete measures of disarmament, particularly nuclear disarmament, and that, in this re spect, the nuclear-weapon States and other militarily sig nificant States have the primary responsibility,

Believing that the preservation of the existing bilateral, regional and global system of arms limitation and disar mament agreements and the strict observance of such agreements by their parties are important elements of disarmament efforts at all levels,

Noting with great concern that no real progress in disar mament negotiations has been achieved in the course of several years,

Stressing once again that the active participation of Member States in effective disarmament negotiations is necessary for discharging their responsibility to contribute to the maintenance of international peace and security, that all States have the right to contribute to efforts in the field of disarmament, that it is more than ever imperative in the present circumstances to give a new impetus to ne gotiations on disarmament, in particular nuclear disarma ment, at all levels and to achieve genuine progress in the immediate future and that all States should refrain from any actions which have or may have negative effects on the outcome of disarmament negotiations,

Reaffirming that the United Nations has a central role and primary responsibility in the sphere of disarmament,

Stressing that the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly, which was unanimously and categorically reaffirmed by all Member States at the twelfth special session as the comprehensive basis for ef forts towards halting and reversing the arms race, retains all its validity and that the objectives and measures con tained therein still represent one of the most important and urgent goals to be achieved,

Expresses its grave concern over the acceleration and intensification of the arms race, particularly the nuclear arms race, which increase the danger of nuclear war and constitute a threat to the continued survival of mankind;

Calls upon all States, in particular nuclear-weapon States and other militarily significant States, to take urgent measures in order to promote international security on the basis of disarmament, to halt and reverse the arms race and to launch a process of genuine disarmament;

Invites all States, particularly nuclear-weapon States and especially those among them which possess the most important nuclear arsenals, to take urgent measures with a view to implementing the recommendations and decisions contained in the Final Document of the Tenth Special Ses sion of the General Assembly, as well as to fulfilling the priority tasks set forth in the Programme of Action con tained in section III of the Final Document;

Calls upon the two leading nuclear-weapon States to pursue their negotiations with renewed determination and

taking into account the interest of the entire international community in order to halt the arms race, particularly the nuclear-arms race, reduce substantially their nuclear arsenals, prevent the arms race in outer space and under take effective measures of nuclear disarmament;

Calls upon the Conference on Disarmament to pro ceed urgently to negotiations on the cessation of the nuclear-arms race and nuclear disarmament and on the prevention of nuclear war, to intensify negotiations on the prevention of an arms race in outer space and to elaborate drafts of treatis on a nuclear-test ban and on a complete and effective prohibition of the development, production and stockpiling of all chemical weapons and on their de struction;

Calls upon the Disarmament Commission to inten sify its work in accordance with its mandate with a view to making concrete recommendations on specific items on its agenda;

Invites all States engaged in disarmament and arms limitation negotiations outside the framework of the United Nations to keep the General Assembly and the Conference on Disarmament informed on the status and/ or results of such negotiations, in conformity with the rele vant provisions of the Final Document of the Tenth Spe cial Session;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-second session the item entitled "Implementation of the recommendations and decisions of the tenth special session".

Requests the Conference on Disarmament to submit a report on its work to the General Assembly at its forty second session; forty-second session the item entitled "Report of the Con ference on Disarmament".

Q

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Sec retary-General99 containing the views and suggestions of Member States on verification principles, procedures and techniques, and encourages all States that have not al ready done so to communicate to the Secretary-General, not later than 31 March 19 87, their views and suggestions on verification principles as invited by the Assembly in its resolution 40/ 152 O;

Urges individual Member States and groups of 3. Member States possessing verification expertise to con sider means by which they can contribute to, and promote the inclusion of, adequate verification measures in arms limitation and disarmament agreements;

Requests the Disarmament Commission to consider at its 19 87 session, in the context of pursuing general and complete disarmament under effective international con trol, verification in all its aspects, including principles, provisions and techniques to promote the inclusion of ade quate verification in arms limitation and disarmament agreements and the role of the United Nations and its Member States in the field of verification, and to report on its deliberations, conclusions and recommendations to the General Assembly at its forty-second session;

Requests the Secretary-General to prepare for the Disarmament Commission at its substantive session in 1 987 a compilation of the views received from Member States on this issue;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-second session the item entitled "Verification in all its aspects" under the item entitled "Review of the im plementation of the recommendations and decisions

adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special ses sion: implementation of the recommendations and deci sions of the tenth special session".

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Commends the study to the attention of all Member States; 3.

Requests the Secretary-General to make the neces sary arrangements for the reproduction of the study as a United Nations publication and to give it the widest possi ble distribution.

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