Affirms that scientific and technological progress should be used for the benefit of all mankind to promote the sustainable economic and social development of all States and to safeguard international security, and that international cooperation in the use of science and technology through the transfer and exchange of technological know-how for peaceful purposes should be promoted;
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InvitesMember States to undertake additional efforts to apply science and technology for disarmament-related purposes and to make disarmament-related technologies available to interested States;
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UrgesMember States to undertake multilateral negotiations with the participation of all interested States in order to establish universally acceptable, non-discriminatory guidelines for international transfers of dual-use goods and technologies and high technology with military applications;
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Recalls its resolution 51/39 of 10 December 1996 and its request to the Secretary-General to submit an updated report no later than at its fifty-third session;
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EncouragesUnited Nations bodies to contribute, within existing mandates, to promoting the application of science and technology for peaceful purposes;
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Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-third session the item entitled "The role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament".
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