Taking Forward Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament Negotiations

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 99bb Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations, published in 2017.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 2013–2017

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2017	A/RES/72/31	Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations	1,476	55%Compare
2017	A/RES/71/258	Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations	1,427	60%Compare
2015	A/RES/70/33	Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations	1,060	52%Compare
2014	A/RES/69/41	Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations	932	64%Compare
2013	A/RES/68/46	Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations	911	50%Compare

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 2	Weapons of mass destruction	26

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 2	Weapons of mass destruction	26	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2014

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2014	A/69/154	Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/68/46

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Disarmament Agreements Disarmament Negotiations Nuclear Disarmament

What’s in this document?

16 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the adoption on 7 July 2017 of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons by the United Nations conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination, convened pursuant to resolution 71/258;¹¹

¹¹A/CONF.229/2017/8.

Also welcomes the report of the conference;¹²

¹²A/72/206.

Notes that the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was opened for signature at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 20 September 2017;

Calls upon all States that have not yet done so to sign and, thereafter, ratify, accept or approve the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the earliest possible date;

Reaffirms that the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is an essential contribution towards nuclear disarmament;

Reiterates that additional measures, both practical and legally binding, for the irreversible, verifiable and transparent destruction of nuclear weapons would be needed in order to achieve and maintain a world without nuclear weapons, including the early entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty¹³ and the negotiation of a treaty on fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices;

¹³See resolution 50/245 and A/50/1027.

Recognizes the value of the participation and contribution of international organizations and civil society to taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations, including at the recently convened United Nations conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination;

Reiterates that the universal objective of taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations remains the achievement and maintenance of a world without nuclear weapons, and emphasizes the importance of addressing issues related to nuclear weapons in a comprehensive, inclusive, interactive and constructive manner, for the advancement of multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations;

Reaffirms the urgency of securing further substantive progress in multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations;

Recommends that, consistent with the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, additional efforts can and should be pursued to elaborate concrete effective legal measures, legal provisions and norms that will need to be concluded to attain and maintain a world without nuclear weapons, and considers that the pursuit of any such measures, provisions and norms should complement and strengthen the nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime, including the three pillars of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons;4

Reaffirms the importance of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons;

Recommends that States consider implementing, as appropriate, the various measures suggested in the report of the Open-ended Working Group taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations, established by the General Assembly by its resolution 70/33,10 including but not limited to transparency measures related to the risks associated with existing nuclear weapons, measures to reduce and eliminate the risk of accidental, mistaken, unauthorized or intentional nuclear weapon detonations, additional measures to increase awareness and understanding of the complexity of and interrelationship between the wide range of humanitarian consequences that would result from any nuclear detonation, and other measures that could contribute to taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations;

Looks forward to the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and to the first meeting of States parties to be convened thereupon;

Requests the Secretary-General to render the necessary assistance and to provide such services as may be necessary to fulfil the tasks entrusted to him under the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-fourth session, under the item entitled “General and complete disarmament”, the sub-item entitled “Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations”;

Also decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-third session, under the item entitled “General and complete disarmament”, a sub-item entitled “Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons”.

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