Nuclear Disarmament Verification

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 98 General and complete disarmament, published in 2016.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 2016–2023

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/78/239

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2023	A/RES/78/239	Nuclear disarmament verification	626	21%Compare
2019	A/RES/74/50	Nuclear disarmament verification	713	20%Compare
2016	A/RES/71/67	Nuclear disarmament verification	976	–

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2024

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2024	A/79/93	Nuclear disarmament verification report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/78/239A/RES/74/50

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Groups of Experts Nuclear Disarmament Nuclear Non-Proliferation Verification

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Calls for further efforts to reduce and eliminate all types of nuclear weapons, and reaffirms the unequivocal undertaking of the nuclear-weapon States to accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals;

Reaffirms that disarmament and arms limitation agreements should provide for adequate measures of verification satisfactory to all parties concerned in order to create the necessary confidence and ensure that they are being observed by all parties, and notes the development of broader partnerships and cooperative verification arrangements;

Calls upon all States to work together to identify and develop practical and effective disarmament verification measures facilitating the objective of achieving and maintaining a world without nuclear weapons through, inter alia, advancing, understanding and addressing technical challenges of nuclear disarmament verification and monitoring, including tools, solutions and methods and capacity-building;

Calls for the development and strengthening of practical and effective nuclear disarmament verification measures, which will build confidence and facilitate the advancement of nuclear disarmament efforts, and affirms in this context the importance of credible verification in providing assurance of compliance with nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation obligations and commitments;

Encourages the Conference on Disarmament and the Disarmament Commission to substantively address nuclear disarmament verification;

Requests the Secretary-General to seek the views of Member States on the development and strengthening of practical and effective nuclear disarmament verification measures and on the importance of such measures in achieving and maintaining a world without nuclear weapons, and to report back to the General Assembly at its seventy-second session;

Also requests the Secretary-General to establish a group of governmental experts of up to 25 participants on the basis of equitable geographical distribution to consider the role of verification in advancing nuclear disarmament, taking into account the aforementioned report, which will meet in Geneva in 2018 and 2019 for a total of three sessions of five days each;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-second session, under the item entitled “General and complete disarmament”, a sub-item entitled “Nuclear disarmament verification”.

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