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

A/RES/46/38No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

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 1991.

What else is in this group?

120 documents · 1979–2002
Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 2002).
  • 2002A/RES/56/26Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its 10th special session resolutionsCompare with earlier document
  • 2001A/RES/55/35Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its 10th special session resolutionsCompare with earlier document
  • 1999A/RES/54/56Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its 10th special sessionCompare with earlier document
  • 1999A/RES/53/79Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its 10th special sessionCompare with earlier document
  • 1997A/RES/52/40[C]Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its 10th special session resolutionsCompare with earlier document

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What subjects does this mandate have?

16 topics
AgendaChemical WeaponsDisarmamentDisarmament AgreementsDisarmament NegotiationsInternational SecurityLanguage ServicesMilitary ApplicationsNuclear DisarmamentProgrammes of ActionRecommendationsRegional DisarmamentReport PreparationScience and TechnologySubsidiary BodiesTechnology Transfer

What does this mandate say?

12 operative paragraphs
1
Takes note of the annual report of the Disarmament Commission;
2
Notes with satisfaction that the Disarmament Commission has successfully implemented its reform programme and has made considerable
1/ Official Records of,_the_ General Assembly, Portv-^sixth Session. Syppiennent:. No. 42 (A/46/42).

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progress on substantive items on its agenda, pursuant to the "Ways and means to enhance the functioning of the Disarmament Commission” adopted at its 1990 substantive session; 2/ * 3.
Recalls the role of the Disarmament Commisison as the specialized, deliberative body within the United Nations multilateral disarmament machinery that allows for in-depth deliberations on specific disarmament issues, leading to the submission of concrete recommendations on those issues;
4
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, 3/ and with paragraph 3 of resolution 37/78 H of 9 December 1982, and to that end to make every effort to achieve specific recommendations on the items on its agenda,
taking Into account the adopted ”Ways and means to enhance the functioning of the Disarmament Commission";
5
Stresses the importance for the Disarmament Commission to work on the basis of a relevant agenda of disarmament topics, thereby enabling the Commission to concentrate its efforts and thus optimize its progress on specific subjects in accordance with resolution 37/78 H;
6
Notes with satisfaction that the Disarmament Commission, at its 1991 organizational session, adopted the following items for consideration at its 1992 substantive session:
1
Objective information on military matters;
2
Process of nuclear disarmament in the framework of international peace and security, with the objective of the elimination of nuclear weapons;
3
Regional approach to disarmament within the context of global security;
4
The role of science and technology in the context of international security, disarmament and other related fields;
7
Also requests the Disarmament Commission to meet for a period not exceeding four weeks during 1992 and to submit a substantive report to the General Assembly at its forty-seventh session;
8
Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Disarmwent Commission the annual report of the Conference on Disarmament, 4/ together with all the official records of the forty-sixth session of the~General Assembly relating to disarmament matters, and to render all assistance that the Commission may require for implenranting the present resolution;
2/ A/CN.10/137 of 27 April 1990.
1/ Resolution S-10/2.
1/ P^flgial. RecoEd.8_Qi_tbe General Assembly, Forty-sixth Session.
yo. 27 (A/46/27).
9
Also reouesta the Secretary-General to ensure full provision to the Commission and its subsidiary .bodies of interpretation and translation facilities in the official languages, and to assign, as a matter of priority, , all the necessary resources and services to this end;
-10.
Decides to.include in the provisional agenda of its forty-seventh session the item entitled "Report of the Disarmament Commission".
65th plenary, (neetinq
6 December 1991 В Comprehensive programme of disarmament The General Assembly.
Recalling its resolution 2602 E (XXIV) of 16 December 1969, in which it declared the decade of the 1970s as a Disarmeunent Decade and requested, inter alia, the then Conference of the Committee on Disarmament to work out "a comprehensive programme, dealing with all aspects of the problem of the cessation of the arms race and general and complete disarmament under effective international control, which would provide the Conference with a guideline to chart,the course of its further work and its negotiations".
Recalling also its resolution 35/46 of 3 December 1980, by which it
adopted the Declaration of the 1980s as the Second Disarmament Decade, which, inter alia, called for the elaboration of the comprehensive programme of disarmament with.the utmost urgency,

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