Prohibition of the Dumping of Radioactive Wastes

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 99eProhibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes, published in 2023.

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17 versions · 1997–2025

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5 topics

Disarmament Agreements Disarmament Negotiations Radioactive Wastes Transboundary Waste Disposal Waste Disposal

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Takes note of the part of the report of the Conference on Disarmament relating to radiological weapons;

Also takes note of the Declaration of the International Atomic Energy Agency Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety, the Action Plan on Nuclear Safety and the high-level meeting on nuclear safety and security convened by the Secretary-General;

Expresses grave concern regarding any use of nuclear wastes that would constitute radiological warfare and have grave implications for the national security of all States;

Calls upon all States to take appropriate measures with a view to preventing any dumping of nuclear or radioactive wastes that would infringe upon the sovereignty of States;

Requests the Conference on Disarmament to take into account, in any negotiations for a convention on the prohibition of radiological weapons, radioactive wastes as part of the scope of such a convention;

Also requests the Conference on Disarmament to continue to consider such a convention and to include in its report to the General Assembly at its seventy-ninth session the progress recorded in the negotiations on this subject;

Takes note of resolution CM/Res.1356 (LIV) of 1991, adopted by the Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, on the Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa;

Expresses the hope that the effective implementation of the International Atomic Energy Agency Code of Practice on the International Transboundary Movement of Radioactive Waste will enhance the protection of all States from the dumping of radioactive wastes on their territories;

Appeals to all Member States that have not yet taken the steps necessary to become party to the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management to do so as soon as possible;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its eightieth session, under the item entitled “General and complete disarmament”, the sub-item entitled “Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes”.

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