Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons

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

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 71k Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons, published in 1998.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1997–1998

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1998	A/RES/52/38[O]	Advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons	—	—
1997	A/RES/51/45[M]	Advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons	—	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Advisory Opinions Disarmament Agreements Disarmament Negotiations Nuclear Disarmament Nuclear Weapons Use

What’s in this document?

4 operative paragraphs

A/RES/52/38 [O]

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Underlines once again the unanimous conclusion of the International Court of Justice that there exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects under strict and effective international control;

Calls once again upon all States immediately to fulfil that obligation by commencing multilateral negotiations in 1998 leading to an early conclusion of a nuclear weapons convention prohibiting the development, production, testing, deployment, stockpiling, transfer, threat or use of nuclear weapons and providing for their elimination;

Requests all States to inform the Secretary-General of the efforts and measures they have taken on the implementation of the present resolution and nuclear disarmament, and requests the Secretary-General to apprise the General Assembly of that information at its fifty-third session;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-third session the item entitled "Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons".

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