Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: The Need for a New Agenda

A/RES/54/54[G]View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 76r Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world : the need for a new agenda, published in 2000.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2000–2002

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/57/59

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2002	A/RES/57/59	Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world the need for a new agenda :	2,121	—
2001	A/RES/55/33[C]	Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world :#the need for a new agenda	—	—
2000	A/RES/54/54[G]	Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: the need for a new agenda	—	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

14 subjects

Conferences Consultations Disarmament Negotiations Nuclear Disarmament Nuclear Materials Nuclear Non-Proliferation Nuclear Safeguards Nuclear Weapon States Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones Russian Federation Transparency in Armaments United States Verification Weapons Deployment

What’s in this document?

27 operative paragraphs

A/RES/54/54 [G]

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Calls upon the nuclear-weapon States to make an unequivocal undertaking to accomplish the speedy and total elimination of their nuclear arsenals and to engage without delay in an accelerated process of negotiations, thus achieving nuclear disarmament, to which they are committed under article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons;2

Calls upon the United States of America and the Russian Federation to bring the Treaty on Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START II)19 into force without further delay and to commence negotiations on START III with a view to its early conclusion;

Calls upon the nuclear-weapon States to undertake the necessary steps towards the seamless integration of all five nuclear-weapon States into the process leading to the total elimination of nuclear weapons;

Calls for the examination of ways and means to diminish the role of nuclear weapons in security policies so as to enhance strategic stability, facilitate the process of the elimination of these weapons and contribute to international confidence and security;

Calls upon the nuclear-weapon States, in this context, to take early steps:

To reduce tactical nuclear weapons with a view to their elimination as an integral part of nuclear arms reductions;

To examine the possibilities for and to proceed to the de-alerting and removal of nuclear warheads from delivery vehicles;

To examine nuclear weapons policies and postures further;

To demonstrate transparency with regard to their nuclear arsenals and fissile material inventories;

To place all fissile material for nuclear weapons declared to be in excess of military requirements under International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards in the framework of the voluntary safeguards agreements in place;

Calls upon those three States that are nuclear weapons capable and that have not yet acceded to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons to reverse clearly and urgently the pursuit of all nuclear weapons development or deployment and to refrain from any action that could undermine regional and international peace and security and the efforts of the international community towards nuclear disarmament and the prevention of the proliferation of nuclear weapons;

Calls upon those States that have not yet done so to adhere unconditionally and without delay to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and to take all the necessary measures which flow from adherence to that instrument as non-nuclear-weapon States;

Calls upon those States that have not yet done so to conclude full-scope safeguards agreements with the International Atomic Energy Agency and to conclude additional protocols to their safeguards agreements on the basis of the Model Protocol approved by the Board of Governors of the Agency on 15 May 1997;20

Calls upon those States that have not yet done so to sign and ratify, unconditionally and without delay, the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty15 and, pending the entry into force of the Treaty, to observe a moratorium on nuclear tests;

Calls upon those States that have not yet done so to adhere to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and to work towards its further strengthening;

Urges the development of the Trilateral Initiative between the United States of America, the Russian Federation and the International Atomic Energy Agency, and urges that similar arrangements be developed by the other nuclear-weapon States;

Calls upon the Conference on Disarmament to re-establish the Ad Hoc Committee under item 1 of its agenda entitled “Cessation of the nuclear arms race and nuclear disarmament”, on the basis of the report of the Special Coordinator18 and the mandate contained therein, of a non-discriminatory, multilateral and internationally and effectively verifiable treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, taking into consideration both nuclear non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament objectives, and to pursue and conclude these negotiations without delay, and, pending the entry into force of the treaty, urges all States to observe a moratorium on the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices;

Also calls upon the Conference on Disarmament to establish an appropriate subsidiary body to deal with nuclear disarmament and, to that end, to pursue as a matter of priority its intensive consultations on appropriate methods and approaches with a view to reaching such a decision without delay;

Considers that an international conference on nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation, which would effectively complement efforts being undertaken in other settings, could facilitate the consolidation of a new agenda for a nuclear-weapon-free world;

Notes, in this context, that the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000 will consider peace, security and disarmament;

Stresses the importance of the full implementation of the decisions and the resolution adopted at the 1995 Review and Extension Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,21 and, in this connection, underlines the significance of the forthcoming Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, to be held in April/May 2000;

Affirms that the development of verification arrangements will be necessary for the maintenance of a world free from nuclear weapons, and requests the International Atomic Energy Agency, together with any other relevant international organizations and bodies, to continue to explore the elements of such a system;

Calls for the conclusion of an internationally legally binding instrument to effectively assure non-nuclear-weapon States parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons;

Stresses that the pursuit, extension and establishment of nuclear-weapon-free zones, on the basis of arrangements freely arrived at, especially in regions of tension, such as the Middle East and South Asia, represent a significant contribution to the goal of a nuclear-weapon-free world;

Affirms that a nuclear-weapon-free world will ultimately require the underpinnings of a universal and multilaterally negotiated legally binding instrument or a framework encompassing a mutually reinforcing set of instruments;

Requests the Secretary-General, within existing resources, to compile a report on the implementation of the present resolution;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fifth session the item entitled “Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: the need for a new agenda”, and to review the implementation of the present resolution.

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