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Scientific and Technological Developments and Their Impact on International Security

A/RES/45/60No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 58Scientific and technological developments and their impact on international security, published in 1990.

What else is in this group?

7 documents · 1990–1994
Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 1994).
  • 1994A/RES/49/67Scientific and technological developments and their impact on international securityCompare with earlier document
  • 1994A/RES/48/66Scientific and technological developments and their impact on international securityCompare with earlier document
  • 1992A/RES/47/43Scientific and technological developments and their impact on international securityCompare with earlier document
  • 1990A/RES/45/60Scientific and technological developments and their impact on international securityCompare with earlier document
  • 1990A/RES/44/118[B]Scientific and technological developments and their impact on international securityCompare with earlier document

This group bundles related documents that are not individually ordered.

iGrouped automatically by matching titles within the same organ.

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 topics
International SecurityNew TechnologiesScience and TechnologyTechnological ChangeTechnology Assessment

What does this mandate say?

5 operative paragraphs
1
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General entitled "Scientific and technological developments and their impact on international security"; 2/
2
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(£) The international community needs to position itself better to follow the nature and direction of technological change;
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The United Nations can serve as a catalyst and a clearing-house for ideas for this purpose;
3
Requests the Secretary-General to continue to follow scientific and technological developments in order to make an assessment of emerging "new technologies" and to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-seventh session a framework for technology assessment guided, inter alia, by the criteria suggested in his report;
4
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-seventh session the item entitled "Scientific and technological developments and their impact on international security”.

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1/ See A/45/568.
2/ A/45/568.

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