Review and Implementation of the Concluding Document of the 12th Special Session of the General Assembly Resolutions

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 57d United Nations Disarmament Fellowship, Training and Advisory Services Programme, published in 1991.

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Reaffirms its decisions contained in annex IV to the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly and the report of the Sec-

62 N45/604.

retary-General64 approved by resolution 33/71 E of 14 December 1978;

Expresses its appreciation to the Governments of Finland, Germany, Japan, Sweden, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America for inviting the 1990 fellows to study selected activities in the field of disarmament, thereby contributing to the fulfilment of the overall objectives of the programme;

Notes that, within the framework of the programme, the Secretary-General organized a regional disarmament workshop for Africa in April 1989 at Lagos and that preparations are under way to organize a similar disarmament workshop for the Asia and Pacific region in the early part of 1991, to be held at Bandung, Indonesia;

Commends the Secretary-General for the diligence with which the programme has continued to be carried out;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue the implementation of the programme within existing resources and to report to the General Assembly at its forty-sixth session.

63 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Twelfth Special Session, Annexes, agenda items 9 to 13, document A/S-12/32.

ANNEX

Draft Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons The States Parties to this Convention,

Alarmed by the threat to the very survival of mankind posed by the existence of nuclear weapons, CONVENTION ON TIIE PROHIBITION OF TIIE USE OF

Convinced that any use of nuclear weapons constitutes a violation NUCLEAR WEAPONS of the Charter of the United Nations and a crime against humanity,

Convinced that this Convention would be a step towards the complete elimination of nuclear weapons leading to general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control,

Detennined to continue negotiations for the achievement of this goal,

Have agreed as follows:

Article 1 The States Parties to this Convention solemnly undertake not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons under any circumstances.

Article Z This Convention shall be of unlimited duration.

Article 3

This Convention shall be open to all States for signature. Any State that does not sign the Convention before its entry into force in accordance with paragraph 3 of this article may accede to it at any time.

This Convention shall be subject to ratification by signatory States. Instruments of ratification or accession shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

This Convention shall enter into force on the deposit of instruments of ratification by twenty-five Governments, including the Governments of the five nuclear-weapon States, in accordance with paragraph 2 of this article.

For States whose instruments of ratification or accession are deposited after the entry into force of the Convention it shall enter into force on the date of the deposit of their instruments' of ratification or accession.

The depository shall promptly inform all signatory and acced- !ng States of the _date _of each signature, the date of deposit of each mstrument of rauficauon or accession and the date of the entry into force of this Convention, as well as of the receipt of other notices.

T_his Co~vention shall be registered by the depository in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.

Article 4 This Convention, of which the Arabic, Chinese, English, French, 64 N33/305. Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall be deposited

with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall send duly certified copies thereof to the Government of the signatory and acceding States.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being duly authorized thereto by their respective Governments, have signed this Convention, opened for signature at ___ on the ____ day of ___ one thousand nine hundred and ___ .

WORLD DISARMAMENT CAMPAIGN

NUCLEAR-ARMS FREEZE

65 N45/555 and Corr.l.

66 N45/498.

67 NCONF.155/1.

BEAN

68 N45/573.

Geaenl Assembly-Forty-Dftb Se1111loa

70 N45/568.

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