Role of Science and Technology in the Context of International Security and Disarmament

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 62Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament, published in 2002.

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18 versions · 1999–2025

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Disarmament Dual-Use Technology Guidelines International Security Know-How Military Applications Negotiation Science and Technology Scientific Cooperation Sustainable Development Technical Cooperation Technological Change Technology Transfer

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Affirms that scientific and technological progress should be used for the benefit of all mankind to promote the sustainable economic and social development of all States and to safeguard international security, and that international cooperation in the use of science and technology through the transfer and exchange of technological know-how for peaceful purposes should be promoted;

Invites Member States to undertake additional efforts to apply science and technology for disarmament-related purposes and to make disarmament-related technologies available to interested States;

Urges Member States to undertake multilateral negotiations with the participation of all interested States in order to establish universally acceptable, non- discriminatory guidelines for international transfers of dual-use goods and technologies and high technology with military applications;

Encourages United Nations bodies to contribute, within existing mandates, to promoting the application of science and technology for peaceful purposes;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-eighth session the item entitled “Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament”.

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