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Relationship Between Disarmament and Development

A/RES/78/23No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 99dRelationship between disarmament and development, published in 2023.

What other versions does this mandate have?

34 versions · 1983–2025
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/25
  • 2025A/RES/80/25Relationship between disarmament and developmentLatestCompare with previous version
  • 2024A/RES/79/43Relationship between disarmament and developmentCompare with previous version
  • 2023A/RES/78/23Relationship between disarmament and developmentCompare with previous version
  • 2022A/RES/77/45Relationship between disarmament and developmentCompare with previous version
  • 2021A/RES/76/37Relationship between disarmament and developmentCompare with previous version

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

1 topic
Disarmament-Development Link

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report of the Secretary-General submitted under this mandate, 2024.

  • 2024A/79/124Relationship between disarmament and development report of the Secretary-General

iIdentified automatically from the metadata in each report’s UN Digital Library catalogue record.

What does this mandate say?

8 operative paragraphs
1
Stresses the central role of the United Nations in the relationship between disarmament and development, and requests the Secretary-General to strengthen further the role of the Organization in this field, in particular the high-level Steering Group on Disarmament and Development, in order to ensure continued and effective coordination and close cooperation between the relevant United Nations departments, agencies and subagencies;
2
Requests the Secretary-General to continue to take action, through appropriate organs and within available resources, for the implementation of the action programme adopted on 11 September 1987 at the International Conference on the Relationship between Disarmament and Development;
3
Urges the international community to devote part of the resources made available by the implementation of disarmament and arms limitation agreements to economic and social development, with a view to reducing the ever-widening gap between developed and developing countries;
4
Encourages the international community to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and to make reference to the contribution that disarmament could provide in meeting them when it reviews its progress towards this purpose, as well as to make greater efforts to integrate disarmament, humanitarian and development activities;
5
Encourages the relevant regional and subregional organizations and institutions, non-governmental organizations and research institutes to incorporate issues related to the relationship between disarmament and development into their agendas and, in this regard, to take into account the report of the Group of Governmental Experts on the relationship between disarmament and development;
6
Reiterates its invitation to Member States to provide the Secretary-General with information regarding measures and efforts to devote part of the resources made available by the implementation of disarmament and arms limitation agreements to economic and social development, with a view to reducing the ever-widening gap between developed and developing countries;
7
Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its seventy-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution, including the information provided by Member States pursuant to paragraph 6 above;
8
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-ninth session, under the item entitled “General and complete disarmament”, the sub-item entitled “Relationship between disarmament and development”.

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