Reduction of Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 66General and complete disarmament, published in 2002.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 2002–2004

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/58/50

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2002A/RES/57/58Reduction of non-strategic nuclear weapons

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What subjects does this mandate have?

13 topics

Arms Limitation Confidence-Building Measures Disarmament Negotiations International Instruments Nuclear Disarmament Nuclear Non-Proliferation Nuclear Safety Nuclear Weapon States Russian Federation Tactical Nuclear Weapons Transparency in Armaments United States Verification

What does this mandate say?

8 operative paragraphs

Agrees that reductions and elimination of non-strategic nuclear weapons should be included as an integral part of the nuclear-arms reduction and disarmament process;

Agrees also that reductions of non-strategic nuclear weapons should be carried out in a transparent, verifiable and irreversible manner;

Agrees further on the importance of preserving, reaffirming, implementing and building upon the 1991 and 1992 presidential nuclear initiatives of the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/Russian Federation on non-strategic nuclear weapons;

Calls upon the Russian Federation and the United States of America to formalize their presidential nuclear initiatives into legal instruments and to initiate negotiations on further effectively verifiable reductions of their non-strategic nuclear weapons;

Stresses the importance of special security and physical protection measures for the transport and storage of non-strategic nuclear weapons, and calls upon all nuclear-weapon States in possession of such weapons to take the necessary steps in this regard;

Calls for further confidence-building and transparency measures to reduce the threats posed by non-strategic nuclear weapons;

Calls also for concrete agreed measures to reduce further the operational status of non-strategic nuclear weapons systems;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-eighth session an item entitled “Reduction of non-strategic nuclear weapons”.

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