Prohibition of the Development and Manufacture of New Types of Weapons of Mass Destruction and New Systems of Such Weapons : Report of the Conference on Disarmament

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 93 Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons : report of the Conference on Disarmament, published in 2017.

What other versions does this mandate have?

7 versions · 2006–2023

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/78/15

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2023	A/RES/78/15	Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons : report of the Conference on Disarmament	412	97%Compare
2020	A/RES/75/31	Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons : report of the Conference on Disarmament	406	98%Compare
2017	A/RES/72/23	Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons : report of the Conference on Disarmament	400	97%Compare
2014	A/RES/69/27	Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons : report of the Conference on Disarmament	394	97%Compare
2011	A/RES/66/21	Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons : report of the Conference on Disarmament	388	89%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

2 subjects

Disarmament Negotiations Weapons of Mass Destruction

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms that effective measures should be taken to prevent the emergence of new types of weapons of mass destruction;

Requests the Conference on Disarmament, without prejudice to further overview of its agenda, to keep the matter under review, as appropriate, with a view to making, when necessary, recommendations on undertaking specific negotiations on identified types of such weapons;

Calls upon all States, immediately following any recommendations of the Conference on Disarmament, to give favourable consideration to those recommendations;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit to the Conference on Disarmament all documents relating to the consideration of this item by the General Assembly at its seventy-second session;

Requests the Conference on Disarmament to report the results of any consideration of the matter in its annual reports to the General Assembly;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-fifth session the item entitled “Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons: report of the Conference on Disarmament”.

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