Status of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction

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

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 71o Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, 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[T]	Status of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction	—	—
1997	A/RES/51/45[T]	Status of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction	—	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Chemical Weapons Chemical Weapons Use Disarmament Agreements Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Verification

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

A/RES/52/38 [T]

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Welcomes the fact that the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction6 entered into force on 29 April 1997 with eighty-seven original States parties as well as the fact that seventeen States have subsequently become States parties to the Convention;

Notes with satisfaction that the First Conference of States Parties held at The Hague in the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 6 to 23 May 1997 successfully launched the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons with Ambassador Jose M. Bustani of Brazil as the first Director-General;

Emphasizes the necessity of universal adherence to the Convention, and calls upon all States that have not yet done so to become States parties to the Convention without delay;

Stresses the vital importance of full and effective implementation of, and compliance with, all provisions of the Convention;

Notes with satisfaction that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has quickly initiated verification activities, including the processing of declarations of States parties and the conducting of inspections of chemical weapons-related and other declared facilities as required by the Convention, and underlines the importance of the early initiation of activities under all relevant provisions of the Convention by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons;

Stresses the importance to the Convention that all possessors of chemical weapons, chemical weapons production facilities or chemical weapons development facilities, including previously declared possessor States, should be among the States parties to the Convention, and welcomes recent progress to that end;

Urges all States parties to the Convention to meet in full their obligations under the Convention and to support the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in its implementation activities;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-third session the item entitled "Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction".

A/C.1/51/10, annex I.

See CD/1467.

See The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, vol. 5: 1980 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.81.IX.4), appendix VII.

See resolution 46/36 L.

United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 729, No. 10485.

Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/47/27), appendix I.

Resolution 2826 (XXVI), annex.

A/52/312 and Corr.1 and 2 and Add.1 and 2 and A/52/316.

Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-second Session, Supplement No. 1 (A/52/1), sect. II.D.

Resolution S-10/2.

United Nations publication, Sales No. E.87.IX.8.

A/50/752-S/1995/1035, annex III; see Official Records of the Security Council, Fiftieth Year, Supplement for October, November and December 1995, document S/1995/1035.

A/52/228.

United Nations publication, Sales No. E.87.IX.8, para. 35.

Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-second Session, Supplement No. 42 (A/52/42), para. 44.

See resolution 50/245.

See CCW/CONF.I/16 (Part I).

Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-first Session, Supplement No. 42 (A/51/42), annex I.

A/52/298, annex.

Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-second Session, Supplement No. 42 (A/52/42), annex III.

A/52/289.

Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-second Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/52/27).

See A/43/398, annex I.

See A/44/603, annex I.

See International Atomic Energy Agency, Resolutions and Other Decisions of the General Conference, Thirty-fourth Regular Session, 17-21 September 1990 (GC(XXXIV)/RESOLUTIONS (1990)).

Ibid., Thirty-eighth Regular Session, 19-23 September 1994 (GC(XXXVIII)/RES/DEC (1994)).

A/51/131, annex I, para. 20.

The Conference of the Committee on Disarmament became the Committee on Disarmament as from the tenth special session of the General Assembly. The Committee on Disarmament was redesignated the Conference on Disarmament as from 7 February 1984.

See A/46/390, annex I.

See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-second Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/52/27), sect. III.E.

A/CONF.157/24 (Part I), chap. III.

The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, vol. 16: 1991 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.92.IX.1), appendix II.

Ibid., vol. 18: 1993 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.94.IX.1), appendix II.

See CD/1460.

1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Final Document, Part I (NPT/CONF.1995/32 (Part I)), annex, decision 3.

Ibid., decision 1.

Ibid., decision 2.

A/51/218, annex.

A/51/912-S/1997/406, annex; see Official Records of the Security Council, Fifty-second Year, Supplement for July, August and September 1997, document S/1997/406.

A/52/447-S/1997/775, annex; see Official Records of the Security Council, Fifty-second Year, Supplement for October, November and December 1997, document S/1997/775.

A/C.1/51/12, annex.

Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-second Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/52/27), para. 30.

CD/1299.

The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, vol. 12: 1987 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.88.IX.2), appendix VII.

A/51/131, annex I.

United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 944, No. 13446.

Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean.

South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty.

Treaty on the South-East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone.

African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty.

United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 402, No. 5778.

Official Records of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, vol. XVII (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.84.V.3), document A/CONF.62/122.

Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 42 (A/48/42), annex II.

CD/1064.

A/52/312 and Corr.1 and 2 and Add.1 and 2.

A/52/316.

A/49/316 and A/52/316.

A/52/112, annex.

A/52/390, annex.

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