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Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty

A/RES/48/70View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 66 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, published in 1994.

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects
Conference and Meeting ServicesConsultationsDisarmament AgreementsDisarmament NegotiationsNuclear Weapon TestsVerification

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 480, No. 6964.
Ibid., vol. 729, No. 10485.
1
Welcomes the decision 3/ taken by the Conference on Disarmament on 10 August 1993 to give its Ad Hoc Committee on a Nuclear Test Ban a mandate to negotiate a universal and internationally and effectively verifiable comprehensive test-ban treaty, and fully endorses the contents of that decision;
2
Calls upon participants in the Conference on Disarmament to approach the inter-sessional consultations mandated by that decision in a positive and constructive light;
3
Urges the Conference on Disarmament at the commencement of its 1994 session to re-establish, with an appropriate negotiating mandate, the Ad Hoc Committee on its agenda item entitled "Nuclear test ban";
4
Calls upon all States to support the multilateral negotiations in the Conference on Disarmament for a comprehensive test-ban treaty;
5
Also urges the Conference on Disarmament to proceed intensively, as a priority task, in its negotiation of such a universal and internationally and effectively verifiable treaty;
6
Requests the Secretary-General to ensure the provision to the Conference on Disarmament of additional administrative, substantive and conference support services for these negotiations;
7
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-ninth session an item entitled "Comprehensive test-ban treaty".
Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/48/27), para. 31 (para. 2 of the quoted text).

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