Bilateral Nuclear Arms Negotiations and Nuclear Disarmament

A/RES/53/77[Z]View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda items 71 General and complete disarmament and 71n Nuclear disarmament, published in 1999.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 1997–1999

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1999	A/RES/53/77[Z]	Bilateral nuclear arms negotiations and nuclear disarmament	—	—
1998	A/RES/52/38[M]	Bilateral nuclear arms negotiations and nuclear disarmament	—	—
1997	A/RES/51/45[R]	Bilateral nuclear arms negotiations and nuclear disarmament	—	—
1997	A/RES/51/45[I]	Bilateral nuclear arms negotiations and nuclear disarmament	—	—

What subjects does this mandate have?

13 subjects

Belarus Disarmament Agreements Disarmament Negotiations Information Exchange Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Kazakhstan Nuclear Disarmament Plutonium Russian Federation Strategic Nuclear Weapons Systems Ukraine United States Weapons Destruction

What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

A/RES/53/77 [Z]

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Welcomes the entry into force of the Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, signed in Moscow on 31 July 1991 by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America,57 including the Protocol to that Treaty signed at Lisbon on 23 May 1992 by the parties thereto, and the exchange of documents of ratification between Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, Ukraine and the United States of America on 5 December 1994 at Budapest;

Also welcomes the signing of the Treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States of America on Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms in Moscow on 3 January 1993,52 and urges the parties to take the steps necessary to bring that Treaty into force at the earliest possible date;

Expresses its satisfaction at the reductions of strategic offensive arms being carried out in accordance with the 1991 Treaty as well as the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States of America to the 1993 Treaty in January 1996, and expresses its hope that it will soon be possible for the Russian Federation to take corresponding steps to ratify that Treaty and for the United States Senate and the State Duma of the Russian Federation to approve the Protocol to the 1993 Treaty and other documents signed on 26 September 1997, so that START II can enter into force;

Expresses further satisfaction at the continuing implementation of the Treaty between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles,64 in particular at the completion by the parties of the destruction of all their declared missiles subject to elimination under the Treaty;

Welcomes the removal of all nuclear weapons from the territory of Kazakhstan as from 1 June 1995, from the territory of Ukraine as from 1 June 1996, and from the territory of Belarus as from 30 November 1996;

Encourages Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, Ukraine and the United States of America to continue their cooperative efforts aimed at eliminating strategic offensive arms on the basis of existing agreements, and welcomes the contributions that other States are making to such cooperation as well;

Welcomes the participation in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons2 of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine as non-nuclear-weapon States, which thereby provided notable enhancement of the non-proliferation regime;

Welcomes the initiative signed by Presidents Yeltsin and Clinton on 2 September 1998, contained in the joint statement on the exchange of information on missile launches and early warning, to exchange information on the ballistic missiles and space launch vehicles derived from each side's missile launch warning system, including the possible establishment of a centre for the exchange of missile launch data operated by the Russian Federation and the United States of America and separate from their respective national centres, and takes note of the initiative to examine bilaterally the possibility of establishing a multilateral ballistic missile and space launch vehicle pre-launch notification regime in which other States could voluntarily participate;

Welcomes the September 1998 pledge by the Russian Federation and the United States of America to remove by stages approximately fifty metric tons of plutonium from each of their nuclear weapons programmes, and to convert this material so that it can never be used in nuclear weapons;

Urges the Russian Federation and the United States of America to commence negotiations on a START III agreement immediately after ratification by the Russian Federation of START II, thereby fulfilling the commitments they undertook in the joint statement issued in Moscow on 2 September 1998;

Encourages and supports the Russian Federation and the United States of America in their efforts aimed at reducing and eliminating their nuclear weapons on the basis of existing agreements and to continue to give those efforts the highest priority in order to contribute to the ultimate goal of eliminating those weapons;

Invites the Russian Federation and the United States of America to keep other States Members of the United Nations duly informed of progress in their discussions and in the implementation of their strategic offensive arms agreements and unilateral decisions.

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