Observance of Environmental Norms in the Drafting and Implementation of Agreements on Disarmament and Arms Control

A/RES/51/45[E]View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 71 General and complete disarmament, published in 1997.

What other versions does this mandate have?

30 versions · 1997–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/32

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/32	Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control	569	98%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/45	Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control	561	96%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/25	Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control	557	98%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/44	Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control	551	98%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/39	Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control	545	98%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

4 reports · 2010–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2025	A/80/124	Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/45
2011	A/66/97/Add.1	Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control report of the Secretary-General : addendum	A/RES/65/53
2011	A/66/97	Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/65/53
2010	A/65/125	Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/64/33

What subjects does this mandate have?

15 subjects

Arms Race Biological Weapons Chemical Weapons Disarmament Agreements Disarmament Negotiations Environmental Protection Environmental Warfare Outer Space Radioactive Wastes Radiological Weapons Seabed Sustainable Development Technological Change Weapons Destruction Weapons of Mass Destruction

What’s in this document?

10 operative paragraphs

A/RES/51/45 [E]

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Invites the Conference on Disarmament to take every necessary measure to include the relevant environmental norms and provisions in negotiating treaties and agreements on disarmament and arms limitation, taking into account the need to preserve the world's environment and to ensure the strict observance of such environmental norms and provisions during the entire process of implementation of the provisions of the aforementioned treaties and agreements, particularly during the process of destruction of the arms covered by them;

Requests the Conference on Disarmament to take into account, in the negotiations for a convention on the prohibition of radiological weapons, radioactive wastes as part of the scope of such a convention, as well as express provisions relating to environmental protection;

Expresses grave concern regarding any use of nuclear wastes that would constitute radiological warfare and have grave implications for the national security of all States and for preserving the environment;

Urges States parties to comply strictly with the provisions of the Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Seabed and the Ocean Floor and in the Subsoil Thereof,and calls on States that possess nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction that have not yet done so, to become parties to the Treaty, as a major contribution to international peace and the ecologically rational use of the environment;

Calls upon all States, especially those that have major space programmes, to contribute actively to the attainment of the goals of using outer space for peaceful purposes, preserving the world's environment and preventing the arms race in outer space and, for the sake of international peace and security and of promoting international cooperation, to refrain from acting counter to the spirit of that international legal instrument;

Welcomes the concrete measures taken by several countries to ensure compliance with the Antarctic Treaty,6 and calls upon all countries to refrain from carrying out any activity counter to the spirit of that international legal instrument;

Emphasizes the importance of the compliance by all States parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction,11 and calls upon them to cooperate and to preserve the environment in the process of the implementation of the Convention in all its relevant aspects;

Urges States parties to consider all the relevant norms related to the protection of the environment in implementing the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction;20

Calls upon States to adopt unilateral, bilateral, regional and multilateral measures so as to contribute to ensuring the application of scientific and technological progress in the framework of international security, disarmament and other related spheres, without detriment to the environment or to its effective contribution to attaining sustainable development;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-second session the item entitled "Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control".

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