Review of the Implementation of the Recommendations and Decisions Adopted by the General Assembly at Its 10th Special Session Resolutions

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 75Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its 10th special session, published in 2000.

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2002A/RES/56/26Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its 10th special session resolutionsCompare with earlier document
2001A/RES/55/35Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its 10th special session resolutionsCompare with earlier document
1999A/RES/54/56Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its 10th special sessionCompare with earlier document
1999A/RES/53/79Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its 10th special sessionCompare with earlier document
1997A/RES/52/40[C]Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its 10th special session resolutionsCompare with earlier document

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Anniversaries Conference and Meeting Services Consultations Disarmament Negotiations Disarmament Research Inter-Agency Cooperation Language Services Meeting Records

What does this mandate say?

24 operative paragraphs

A

Welcomes the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research;

Recognizes the importance and high quality of the work of the Institute;

Reiterates its conviction that the Institute should continue to conduct independent research on problems relating to disarmament and security and to undertake specialized research requiring a high degree of expertise;

Requests all Member States to consider making financial contributions to the Institute in order to ensure its viability and the quality of its work over the long term;

Recommends that the Secretary-General seek ways to increase the funding of the Institute, within existing resources.

B

Reaffirms the role of the Conference on Disarmament as the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community;

Urges the Conference to fulfil that role in the light of the evolving international situation, with a view to making early substantive progress on priority items on its agenda;

Welcomes the strong collective interest of the Conference in commencing substantive work as soon as possible during its 2001 session;

Also welcomes the decision of the Conference to request its President to conduct jointly with the incoming President intensive consultations during the inter-sessional period in order to try to achieve this goal, as expressed in paragraph 35 of the report of the Conference;4

Encourages the Conference to continue the ongoing review of its membership, agenda and methods of work;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to ensure the provision to the Conference of adequate administrative, substantive and conference support services;

Requests the Conference to submit a report on its work to the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session the item entitled “Report of the Conference on Disarmament”.

C

Takes note of the report of the Disarmament Commission;5

Reaffirms the importance of further enhancing dialogue and cooperation among the First Committee, the Disarmament Commission and the Conference on Disarmament;

Also reaffirms the role of the Disarmament Commission as the specialized, deliberative body within the United Nations multilateral disarmament machinery that allows for in-depth deliberations on specific disarmament issues, leading to the submission of concrete recommendations on those issues;

Requests the Disarmament Commission to continue its work in accordance with its mandate, as set forth in paragraph 118 of the Final Document of the Tenth Special Session of the General Assembly, and with paragraph 3 of Assembly resolution 37/78 H of 9 December 1982, and to that end to make every effort to achieve specific recommendations on the items of its agenda, taking into account the adopted “Ways and means to enhance the functioning of the Disarmament Commission”;

Recommends that the Disarmament Commission, at its 2000 organizational session, adopt the following items for consideration at its 2001 substantive session:

Ways and means to achieve nuclear disarmament;

Practical confidence-building measures in the field of conventional arms;

Requests the Disarmament Commission to meet for a period not exceeding three weeks during 2001 and to submit a substantive report to the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Disarmament Commission the annual report of the Conference on Disarmament,4 together with all the official records of the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly relating to disarmament matters, and to render all assistance that the Commission may require for implementing the present resolution;

Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure the full provision to the Disarmament Commission and its subsidiary bodies of interpretation and translation facilities in the official languages and to assign, as a matter of priority, all the necessary resources and services, including verbatim records, to that end;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session the item entitled “Report of the Disarmament Commission”.

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