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Prohibition of the Development and Manufacture of New Types of Weapons of Mass Destruction and New Systems of Such Weapons

A/RES/54/44No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 65Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons : report of the Conference on Disarmament, published in 1999.

What else is in this group?

21 documents · 1976–2002
Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 2002).
  • 2002A/RES/57/50Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weaponsCompare with earlier document
  • 1999A/RES/54/44Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weaponsCompare with earlier document
  • 1990A/RES/45/66Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weaponsCompare with earlier document
  • 1989A/RES/43/72Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weaponsCompare with earlier document
  • 1987A/RES/42/35Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weaponsCompare with earlier document

This group bundles related documents that are not individually ordered.

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What subjects does this mandate have?

4 topics
Disarmament NegotiationsDocumentsWeapons of Mass DestructionWeapons Systems

What does this mandate say?

6 operative paragraphs
1
Reaffirms that effective measures should be taken to prevent the emergence of new types of weapons of mass destruction;
2
Requests the Conference on Disarmament, without prejudice to further overview of its agenda, to keep the matter under review, as appropriate, with a view to making, when necessary, recommendations on undertaking specific negotiations on identified types of such weapons;
3
Calls upon all States, immediately following any recommendations of the Conference on Disarmament, to give favourable consideration to those recommendations;
4
Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Conference on Disarmament all documents relating to the consideration of this item by the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session;
5
Requests the Conference on Disarmament to report the results of any consideration of the matter in its annual reports to the General Assembly;
6
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session the item entitled “Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons: report of the Conference on Disarmament”.

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