Report of the Conference on Disarmament

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A document of the General Assembly, under agenda item 101a Report of the Conference on Disarmament, published in 2025.

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29 versions · 1985–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/65	Report of the Conference on Disarmament	986	80%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/71	Report of the Conference on Disarmament	927	80%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/61	Report of the Conference on Disarmament	811	77%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/89	Report of the Conference on Disarmament	810	87%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/62	Report of the Conference on Disarmament	713	97%Compare

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 1	Multilateral negotiations and deliberations on disarmament and arms limitation	9

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 1	Multilateral negotiations and deliberations on disarmament and arms limitation	9	—

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.

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2 subjects

Consultations Disarmament Negotiations

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11 operative paragraphs

Reaffirms the role of the Conference on Disarmament as the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community;

Appreciates the strong support expressed for the Conference on Disarmament at its 2025 session by Ministers for Foreign Affairs and other high-level officials, while also acknowledging their concern about its ongoing impasse of more than two decades, and takes into account their calls for greater flexibility with respect to commencing the substantive work of the Conference without further delay;

Calls upon the Conference on Disarmament to further intensify consultations and to explore possibilities for overcoming its ongoing deadlock by adopting and implementing a balanced and comprehensive programme of work at the earliest possible date during its 2026 session, bearing in mind the decision on the programme of work adopted by the Conference on 29 May 2009,⁴ as well as other relevant decisions and proposals;

⁴Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/64/27), para. 18.

Notes with appreciation the decisions of the Conference on Disarmament on the re-establishment, in accordance with its rules of procedure, of subsidiary bodies on agenda items 1 to 4 and one on agenda items 5, 6 and 7,⁵ for the 2025 session;

⁵Ibid., Eightieth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/80/27), para. 13.

Encourages the current President and the incoming President of the Conference on Disarmament, bearing in mind the role of the Conference on Disarmament as the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum, as well as building on the decisions on the work of the Conference on Disarmament for 2024⁶ and 2025⁷ and with a view to the early resumption of substantive work during its 2026 session, in accordance with its rules of procedure, to conduct consultations on the activities of the Conference in fulfilling its mandate during the intersessional period and, if possible, to make recommendations, taking into account all relevant proposals, past, present and future, including those submitted as documents of the Conference, views presented and discussions held, and to endeavour to keep the membership of the Conference informed, as appropriate, of their consultations;

⁶Ibid., Seventy-ninth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/79/27), paras. 13 and 14.

⁷Ibid., Eightieth Session, Supplement No. 27 (A/80/27), para. 13.

Requests the current President and successive Presidents of the Conference on Disarmament to cooperate with the States members of the Conference in the effort to guide the Conference to the early resumption of its substantive work, including negotiations, at its 2026 session;

Recognizes the importance of continuing consultations in 2026 on the question of the expansion of the membership of the Conference on Disarmament;

Calls upon the Conference on Disarmament to undertake in its work further substantive efforts to ensure multilateralism and inclusivity through participation of States not members of the Conference at its sessions, in accordance with its rules of procedure;⁸

⁸CD/8/Rev.10, paras. 18 and 32–36.

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to ensure and to strengthen, if needed, the provision to the Conference on Disarmament of all necessary administrative, substantive and conference support services;

Requests the Conference on Disarmament to submit to the General Assembly at its eighty-first session a report on its work;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its eighty-first session, under the item entitled “Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special session”, the sub-item entitled “Report of the Conference on Disarmament”.

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