Prohibition of the Development and Manufacture of New Types of Weapons of Mass Destruction and New Systems of Such Weapons

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 155Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons, published in 1990.

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21 documents · 1976–2002

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2002A/RES/57/50Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weaponsCompare with earlier document
1999A/RES/54/44Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weaponsCompare with earlier document
1990A/RES/45/66Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weaponsCompare with earlier document
1989A/RES/43/72Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weaponsCompare with earlier document
1987A/RES/42/35Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weaponsCompare with earlier document

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6 topics

Disarmament Negotiations Documents Recommendations Reporting Procedures Weapons of Mass Destruction Weapons Systems

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6 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms that effective measures should be undertaken to prevent the emergence of new types of weapons of mass destruction;

Requests the Conference on Disarmament, in the light of its existing priorities, to keep under review, with expert assistance, as appropriate, the questions of the prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons with a view to making, when -necessary, recommendations on undertaking specific negotiations on the identified types of such weapons;

Calls upon all States, immediately following the recommendation of the Conference on Disarmament, to give favourable consideration to these recommendations;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Conference on Disarmament all documents relating to the consideration of this item by the General Assembly at its forty-fifth session;

Requests the Conference on Disarmament to continue the practice of reporting the results of its consideration of these questions in its annual report to the General Assembly;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-eighth session the item entitled "Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons: report of the Conference on Disarmament".

54th plenary meetina

4 December 1990

1/ Official Records of the General Assembly, Fortv-fourth Session. Supplement No. 27 (A/44/27), sect. III.G and Fortv-fifth Session. Supplement Ho. 27 (A/45/27), sect. III.G.

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