Nuclear Disarmament

A/RES/52/38[L]View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 71m Nuclear disarmament, published in 1998.

What other versions does this mandate have?

30 versions · 1997–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/24

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/24	Nuclear disarmament	2,894	99%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/50	Nuclear disarmament	2,884	96%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/53	Nuclear disarmament	2,813	98%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/65	Nuclear disarmament	2,833	96%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/46	Nuclear disarmament	2,755	98%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

20 reports · 2005–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2025	A/80/163	Nuclear disarmament; follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons; reducing nuclear danger report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/79/50
2024	A/79/137	Nuclear disarmament; follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons; reducing nuclear danger report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/78/53
2023	A/78/118	Nuclear disarmament; follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons; reducing nuclear danger report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/77/65
2022	A/77/123	Nuclear disarmament; follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons; reducing nuclear danger report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/76/46
2021	A/76/117	Nuclear disarmament; follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons; reducing nuclear danger report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/75/63

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Disarmament Agreements Disarmament Negotiations Nuclear Disarmament Nuclear Weapon States Programmes of Action

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

A/RES/52/38 [L]

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Recognizes that, in view of recent political developments, the time is now opportune for all nuclear-weapon States to undertake effective disarmament measures with a view to the total elimination of these weapons within a time-bound framework;

Recognizes also that there is a genuine need to de-emphasize the role of nuclear weapons, and to review and revise nuclear doctrines accordingly;

Urges the nuclear-weapon States to stop immediately the qualitative improvement, development, production and stockpiling of nuclear warheads and their delivery systems;

Reiterates its call upon the nuclear-weapon States to undertake the step-by-step reduction of the nuclear threat and a phased programme of progressive and balanced deep reductions of nuclear weapons, and to carry out effective nuclear disarmament measures with a view to the total elimination of these weapons within a time-bound framework;

Expresses its concern at the continuing opposition by some States to the establishment of an ad hoc committee on nuclear disarmament in the Conference on Disarmament, as called for in General Assembly resolution 51/45 O;

Reiterates its call upon the Conference on Disarmament to establish, on a priority basis, an ad hoc committee on nuclear disarmament to commence negotiations early in 1998 on a phased programme of nuclear disarmament and for the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons within a time-bound framework through a nuclear weapons convention;

Urges the Conference on Disarmament to take into account in this regard the proposal of the twenty-eight delegations for a programme of action for the elimination of nuclear weapons,41 as well as the mandate for the ad hoc committee on nuclear disarmament, proposed by the twenty-six delegations;42

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session a report on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-third session the item entitled "Nuclear disarmament".

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