Chemical and Bacteriological (Biological) Weapons Resolutions

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 63Chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons, published in 1989.

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54 documents · 1973–1991

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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

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14 topics

Biological Weapons Chemical and Biological Warfare Chemical Weapons Chemical Weapons Use Conferences Confidence-Building Measures Declarations Disarmament Agreements Disarmament Negotiations Groups of Experts Guidelines Information Exchange Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Toxic Substances

What does this mandate say?

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Renews its call to all States to observe strictly the principles and objectives of the Protocol for the Prohibi tion of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, and condemns vigorously all actions that violate this obli gation;

Calls upon all States that have not yet done so to ac cede to the 1925 Geneva Protocol;

Urges the Conference on Disarmament to pursue as a matter of continuing urgency its negotiations on a con vention on the prohibition of the development, produc tion, stockpiling and use of all chemical weapons and on their destruction;

Calls upon all States to be guided in their national policies by the need to curb the spread of chemical weap ons pending the conclusion of such a convention;

Requests the Secretary-General to carry out promptly investigations in response to reports that may be brought _to his attention by any Member State concerning the poss1blĉ use of chemical and bacteriological (biologi cal) or toxm weapons that may constitute a violation of the Geneva Protocol or other rules of customary interna tional law in order to ascertain the facts of the matter, and to report promptly the results of any such investigation to all Ċember States, in accordance with the procedures es tabhshed by the General Assembly in its resolution 42/37 C;

Also requests the Secretary-General, pursuant to resol_ution 42/37 C, ':"ith the assistance of the group of qualified experts provided by interested Member States to continue his efforts to develop further technical guideliċes a!ld pČocedčres_ available to him for the timely and effi cient mvest1gat1on of such reports of the possible use of chemical and bacteriological (biological) or toxin weap ons, and to report to Member States as soon as possible;

Requests Member States and the relevant interna tional organizations to co-operate fully with the Secretary General in the above-mentioned work;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-fourth session the item entitled "Chemical and bac teriological (biological) weapons".

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