Regulation, Limitation and Balanced Reduction of All Armed Forces and All Armaments; Conclusion of an International Convention (Treaty) on the Reduction of Armaments and the Prohibition of Atomic, Hydrogen and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction

A/RES/914(X)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1956.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1956–1958

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/1148(XII)

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1958	A/RES/1148(XII)	Regulation, limitation and balanced reduction of all armed forces and all armaments; conclusion of an international convention (treaty) on the reduction of armaments and the prohibition of atomic, hydrogen and other weapons of mass destruction	774	11%Compare
1957	A/RES/1011(XI)	Regulation, limitation and balanced reduction of all armed forces and all armaments; conclusion of an international convention (treaty) on the reduction of armaments and the prohibition of atomic, hydrogen and other weapons of mass destruction	735	11%Compare
1956	A/RES/914(X)	Regulation, limitation and balanced reduction of all armed forces and all armaments; conclusion of an international convention (treaty) on the reduction of armaments and the prohibition of atomic, hydrogen and other weapons of mass destruction	767	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Armaments Arms Limitation Confidence-Building Measures Disarmament Negotiations Military Expenditures Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions Nuclear Materials Nuclear Weapon Tests

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Urges that the States concerned and particularly those on the Sub-Committee of the Disarmament Commission:

Should continue their endeavours to reach agreement on a comprehensive disarmament plan in accordance with the goals set out in General Assembly resolution 808 (IX);

( b) Should, as initial steps, give priority to early agreement on and implementation of :

( i) Such confidence-building measures as the plan of Mr. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, for exchan~ing military blueprints and mutual aerial inspection, and the plan of Mr.

Bul~anin, Prime Minister of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, for establishing control posts at strategic centres,

All such measures of adequately safeguarded disarmament as are now feasible;

Suggests that account should also be taken of the proposals of the Prime Minister of France for exchang· mg and publishing information re~arding military expenditures and budgets, of the Pnme Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · for seeking practical experience in the problems of in- Tenth See.ion spection and control, and of the Government of India regarding the suspension of experimental explosions of nuclear weapons and an "armaments truce";

Calls upon the States concerned, and especially those on the Sub-Committee of the Disarmament Commission, to study the proposal of the Prime Minister of France for the allocation of funds resulting from disarmament for improving the standards of living throughout the world and, in particular, in the less-developed countries;

Recommends further that scientific search should be continued by each State, with appropriate consultation between Governments, for methods that would make possible thoroughly effective inspection and control of nuclear weapons material, having as its aim to facilitate the solution of the problem of comprehensive disarmament;

Suggests that the Disarmament Commission reconvene its Sub-Committee and that both pursue their efforts to attain the above objectives;

Decides to transmit to the Disarmament Commission, for its information, the records of the meetings of the First Committee at which the disarmament problem was discussed during the tenth session of the General Assembly, and requests the Disarmament Commission and the Sub-Committee to give careful and early consideration to the views expressed in those documents.

559th plenary meetinJl.,

16 December 1955.

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