A/RES/59/75
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 December 2004
Fifty-ninth session
Agenda item 65 (t)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 3 December 2004
[on the report of the First Committee (A/59/459)]
59/75. Accelerating the implementation of nuclear disarmament
commitments
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 58/51 of 8 December 2003, and mindful of the
upcoming 2005 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons,
Expressing its grave concern at the danger to humanity posed by the
possibility that nuclear weapons could be used and at the lack of implementation of
binding obligations and agreed steps towards nuclear disarmament, and reaffirming
that nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation are mutually reinforcing
processes requiring urgent irreversible progress on both fronts,
Recalling the unequivocal undertaking by the nuclear-weapon States to
accomplish the total elimination of their nuclear arsenals, leading to nuclear
disarmament, in accordance with commitments made under article VI of the Treaty
on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1 and noting that the ultimate
objective of the disarmament process is general and complete disarmament under
strict and effective international control,
Calls upon all States to comply fully with commitments made regarding
1.
nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation and not to act in any way that
may be detrimental to nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation or that may lead to
a new nuclear arms race;
Also calls upon all States to spare no efforts to achieve universal
2.
adherence to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons1 and the early
entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty; 2
3.
Calls upon all States parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of
Nuclear Weapons to accelerate the implementation of the practical steps for
systematic and progressive efforts to achieve nuclear disarmament that were agreed
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 729, No. 10485.
See resolution 50/245.