Accelerating the Implementation of Nuclear Disarmament Commitments

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 65t Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world : a new agenda, published in 2004.

What subjects does this mandate have?

12 subjects

Disarmament Agreements Disarmament Negotiations Fissionable Materials Nuclear Arms Race Nuclear Disarmament Nuclear Non-Proliferation Nuclear Weapon States Subsidiary Bodies Tactical Nuclear Weapons Transparency in Armaments Treaty Compliance Verification

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8 operative paragraphs

Calls upon all States to comply fully with commitments made regarding nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation and not to act in any way that may be detrimental to nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation or that may lead to a new nuclear arms race;

Also calls upon all States to spare no efforts to achieve universal adherence to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons1 and the early entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty;³

³See resolution 50/245.

Calls upon all States parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons to accelerate the implementation of the practical steps for systematic and progressive efforts to achieve nuclear disarmament that were agreed upon at the 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons;⁴

⁴See 2000 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Final Document, vol. I (NPT/CONF.2000/28 (Parts I and II)), part I.

Calls upon the nuclear-weapon States to take further steps to reduce their non-strategic nuclear arsenals and not to develop new types of nuclear weapons, in accordance with their commitment to diminish the role of nuclear weapons in their security policies;

Agrees urgently to strengthen efforts towards both nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation through the resumption in the Conference on Disarmament of negotiations on a non-discriminatory, multilateral and internationally and effectively verifiable treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, in accordance with the statement of the Special Coordinator in 1995⁵ and the mandate contained therein, taking into account both nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation objectives, as well as the completion and implementation of arrangements by all nuclear-weapon States to place fissile material no longer required for military purposes under international verification;

⁵See CD/1299.

Calls for the establishment of an appropriate subsidiary body in the Conference on Disarmament to deal with nuclear disarmament;

Underlines the imperative of the principles of irreversibility and transparency for all nuclear disarmament measures and the need to develop further adequate and efficient verification capabilities;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixtieth session an item entitled “Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: accelerating the implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments”, and to review the implementation of the present resolution at that session.

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